Where one or two vineries have been started, another may be started about the middle or end of the month, according to circumstances. See former directions as to temperature, etc., connected with starting them. The temperature may now, however, rans;e 5° higher than in the case of those started in December. Prune and otherwise prepare the late Vines for starting immediately the fruit is all cut from them. Where Grapes are still hanging, continue to look over them at least twice a-week, and remove every sign of decay or mouldiness. Continue to air these on fine dry days, and keep the house shut when it is wet and foggy. Use fire-heat to keep the temperature at 45° in severe weather, and on fine days after rain put a little extra heat in the pipes to expel damp. The remaining Grapes, where only a few are now left, may be cut and have their stalks put in bottles of water, by which means they keep well enough, but they deteriorate and become watery in flavour. All superfluous bunches should be thinned from advancing early crops, immediately it can be seen which are the best to leave. Compact-shouldered bunches with short footstalks should always be preferred to those that are long and loose.

Thin the berries of Hamburgs and other free-setting sorts very soon after they are set; and their thinning should be completed at once, for it is very undesirable to be thinning them after the berries are getting near the stoning point. Do not exceed 65° at night all through this month. But take every chance of shutting up the house early when there is sun, allowing the temperature to run to 80° for a time. When the weather is dull, avoid much evaporation of moisture from steaming-trays, but keep the air genially moist by floor-sprinklings. Give more or less air every day, regulating the amount according to the state of the weather. Attend carefully to the disbudding, stopping, and tying down all Vines that are in stages of growth requiring such operations. See last month's Calendar regarding these points. Where there has been a bed of fermenting leaves, or manure and leaves, placed on outside borders, let it be turned over and some fresh mate -rial be added, so that the heat may be quickened. If it can be protected from rains, it will continue toheat more steadily and for a longer time.

Where very early Grapes are being pushed forward from pot-Vines, the forcing may now be at an augmented pace, especially with sun-heat by day, when the thermometer may stand at 85° for a while in the afternoon, starting the fire just in time to prevent it from falling below 70° at 10 P.M. In cold weather it may drop to 65° by morning. Hard forcing to force up to a maximum night temperature is bad in all respects. Give air always early in the day. Pinch off" all fresh lateral growths. See that no check is allowed from neglect of steady supplies of moisture at the root, giving manure-water in a weak state every time of watering. Vine-eyes may now be put into heat, giving them a bottom-heat of 75° to 80°, and a top-heat of about 60°, till they are well started, when it may be raised to 65°.