The Garden Under Glass

156 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS feet each year afterwards until the make-up of the border is completed. A border made up on these lines should, with the usual top-dressing each year, last for a consider-able number of years. Watering with liquid manure may be done af ter the berries have stoned. Starting a Vinery or Vine Usually the beginning of February will be quite time enough to start a vinery, unless very early grapes are desired. Started in February, grapes should be nicely ripe from such vines by the end of July. The main points in starting a vine into growth are to make sure that it is well watered, that the house is washed, the vines cleaned and the border top-dressed. To ensure cleanliness the whole structure will need to be well washed with hot soapy water. When this has been done the walls will need whitewashing, and the border may be top-dressed with loam, mortar rubble and a fair sprinkling of a good Chemical manure such as "Le Fruitier.” It will generally be found necessary to take off an inch or two of the oid soil and wheel it into the kitchen garden. When the roots are reached the topdressing may be put on—the obj eet being to entice the roots to the surface. The vine itself had better be washed with “ Gishurst Compound,” but this, like all other in-secticides, should be kept clear of the buds. Scraping the bark of the vine is a practice which can only be encouraged when there has been an attack of mealy bug. Before putting heat into the house it is best to keep it fairly close for a week or two. After this a temperature of 45° to 50° should be maintained at night, with a corre-sponding inerease from sun-heat during the day. Syringing of the vines is advised each day at about nine a.m. and