. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. GRA GRA eyes, and as many of its leaves, and scrape off a little of the bark the whole length of the part intended for roots, which is bent into the pot, and covered with mould to the depth of six or seven inches. No attention is required, ex- cepting to train the shoot as it advances in growth, and keep the mould in the pot a little moist, to encourage the emission of roots, which will appear in a fortnight or three weeks, and soon fill the pot. When the shoot is laid in the pot. allow it to grow from four to eight feet long, according to the str
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. GRA GRA eyes, and as many of its leaves, and scrape off a little of the bark the whole length of the part intended for roots, which is bent into the pot, and covered with mould to the depth of six or seven inches. No attention is required, ex- cepting to train the shoot as it advances in growth, and keep the mould in the pot a little moist, to encourage the emission of roots, which will appear in a fortnight or three weeks, and soon fill the pot. When the shoot is laid in the pot. allow it to grow from four to eight feet long, according to the strength of the parent vine, to which leave it attached until it has done growing, and perfectly ripened its wood. " Should there not be a sufficient quantity of leaders, place pots under the rafters at mostconvenient situations, and likewise on the front flue; but the shoots that are laid in these pots never suffer to exceed five feet in length. When the plants are severed from the parent vines, put them out under a wall, where they are protected from frosts, and take into the house as required for forcing; at that time shift into pots about a foot over and fourteen inches deep, to remain until the fruit is cut, after which they may be thrown away, sure of a fresh supply of plants every year by the same ; — Gard. Chron. Mr. H. Burn, gardener of Tottenham Park, gives the following particulars of his mode of cultivating the vine in pots: —" I invariably set the eyes in thumb pots on the first ofFebruary, and putting moss about two and a half inches deep on the flue at the back of the pine pits, I place the pot upon it, keeping the moss always moist. " As soon as the bud or eye has grown and become well furnished with roots, I repot into sixty-sized pots, and con- tinue afterwards to shift as fast as the pots become filled with roots; from sixties to forty-eights, thirty-twos, twen- ty-fours, sixteens, and twelve-sized pots successively; and lastly, i
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