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Excerpt from The Grape Vine, Vol. 2: Its Culture, Uses, and History
Under this head may be considered not only the modes Of cultivating the grape vine in the same house with ?owering plants, but also its cultivation in a vinery by itself, with a similar employment Of heat only sufficient to exclude frost and other low tempe ratures at certain periods Of the vine's growth. These periods are chie?y in early spring, when the occur rence Of night frosts and easterly winds endanger the Opening buds-wand late in autumn, when cold damp weather may render a little artificial heat desirable, either to promote the ripening Of the wood, or pre serve from mouldiness the ripened fruit.
With regard to training, pruning, and thinning, in the greenhouse, they are fundamentally the same as in the stove (see next section), but with especial care on these points l. TO train the vines to the rafters or otherwise, so that they shall not overshadow the interior before the end Of May. 2. TO empty the greenhouse of all greenhouse plants after that period.
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