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Rh mottle it. Air is given plentifully after the first week. The syringe is used freely every evening, when the house is closed. Water is given at the roots as required; sometimes they go a fortnight without a single drop more than falls upon the leaves and the soil from the syringe; or during hot dry weather they may need to be well watered at the roots two or three times a week.

Here the story should end. But it may be well to add that abundance of room is allowed amongst the vines; that the crop



is severely thinned throughout the season; that in spite of severe thinning the produce is enormous and constant, so that the spectacle presented by the house when the vines are in full bearing calls forth exclamations of surprise, not only from the uninitiated, but from experienced practicals. Yet one word more. Seasons differ immensely, and we have always adapted