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eyes, and as many of its leaves, and linings of the pine pits select the most
scrape oft' a little of the bark the whole decayed parts of the manure,
length of the part intended for roots, "I usually allow the shoots to run to
which is bent into the pot, and covered the
with mould to the depth of six or seven
extent of thirteen eyes, and then
inches. No attention is required, excepting
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
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stop them.
" By the middle of September the
wood becomes ripened, and I then
prune them back to the ninth eye, and
remove them from the pinery to the
open air, setting them under a south
wall, on bricks placed edgewise, so as
to admit free drainage. On the first of
November, I generally take in fifty-pots
for forcing; (this I have occasionally
done on the first of October ;) when they
are washed with soft sonp and sulphur.
After all the eyes have shown fruit,
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"Should there not be a sufficient I select from six to eight of the best
quantity of leaders, place pots under bunches to remain, and pluck off" the
the rafters at mostconvenient situations, others, never allowing one eye to bear
and likewise on the front flue; but the more than one bunch. I syringe the
shoots that are laid in these pots never vines gently with warm water three
suffer to exceed five feet in length.
When the plants are severed from the
times a week, and water thern
week with the liquid manure.
twice a
Should
parentvines, put them out under a wall, they, however, occasionally require
where they are protected from frosts, more moisture, I give them nothing
and take into the house as required for more than soft water about milk warm.
forcing; at that time shift into pots I invariably fruit annually from 100 to
about a foot over and fourteen inches 120 vines, taking in after the first fifty
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 process." — Card.
Chron.
Mr. H. Burn, gardener of Tottenham
Park, gives the following particulars of
his mode of cultivating the vine in pots
the rest in succession.
Fig. 74.
—" I invariably set the eyes in thumb
pots on the first of February, 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 continue
afterwards to shift as fast as the
pots become filled with roots ; from
sixties to forty-eights, thirty-twos, twenty-fours,
sixteens, and twelve-sized pots
successively ; and lastly, into bushelpots,
which I have made for the purpose.
I encourage rapidity of growth as much
as possible, by feeding them with liquid
manure made from cows' and deers'
and during the whole time keep
dung ;
a good drainage at the bottom of the
pots. The soil I used is nothing more
than three-fourths strong turfy loam,
and -one-fourth horse-dung ; from the
" The above engraving represents a
transverse section of the vinery, with
bed for tree leaves to decay and heat;
frame-work for the support of front
trough sixteen inches wide at the top,
and ten inches deep, and the wire under
the rafters on which the vines are
trained." — United Card, and Land
Steward's Journ,