298 THE GARDENER. [July 



2000 pots of French Beans were in course of forcing in various 

 stages, 600 beans a-day being the demand, all being forced in vineries 

 at work, and mostly on the floors of the houses, the thin copper sash- 

 bars and iron rafters admitting abundance of light. Every pot is ex- 

 pected to yield on an average from 80 to 100 Beans. 



Ripe Grapes have been in use since the middle of March from pot 

 Vines. The crops on all these Vines, which can be counted by the hun- 

 dred, are extraordinary. Mr Rose was celebrated for his success with 

 pot Vines at Floors Castle ; at Frogmore he is equally successful. Six 

 to eight bunches is the crop allowed on Vines in 7 and 8 inch pots. 

 Small pots and abundant feeding is the system pursued, the weight 

 of fruit obtained from each plant exceeding the weight of the soil the 

 pot contains after being dried. 



Nearly all the vineries are renewed, or are in course of renewal. 

 Whole houses of Black Hamburgh and of Muscats are planted, besides 

 which Alicante, Napoleon, and Lady Downes are relied on as stock 

 varieties. Golden Champion is doing well and showing abundantly, and 

 Mr Rose speaks of it with perfect confidence : notwithstanding the severe 

 critical handling this Grape has suffered, it will ultimately triumph when 

 it gets established. Mr Rose has, with an eye to maintaining the 

 supplies while renewing the vineries, accomplished the filling of two 

 vineries with a full crop of fruit the second year, the roof being equally 

 covered with bunches from end to end. Between each permanent Vine 

 in front is trained a pot Vine, fruited nearly its whole length, reaching 

 half-way up the rafter, the Vines allowed to root into the border. Three 

 bunches only are taken off the permanent Vines. Others are planted 

 against the back wall, which meet the pot Vines half-way down ; these 

 are allowed to fruit their entire length. The Vines have broken at 

 every bud : the bunches are not of large size, but are good table, if 

 not sensational, fruit. The pot Vines are thrown away when fruited, 

 those on the back wall retained for a time. A large batch of pot Vines 

 are still in the open air behind a wall, which are brought indoors to 

 take the place of those fruited in March and April, thus taking two 

 crops from the same house in one season. The Grape crops, to my 

 thinking, are much too heavy altogether; but Mr Rose has special care 

 to the foliage, the true key by which success is opened up. The 

 command of water is unlimited. 



I did not purpose writing a paper in detail of what is to be seen at 

 Frogmore — it would be impossible to do so within a reasonable compass, 

 the subjects worthy of notice present such an embarras des richesses to 

 the mind's eye. Before it is a panorama of hundreds of feet of Mush- 

 room beds, in all stages, some of them studded with buttons and knobs 

 of Mushrooms, like stone Turnips, for gathering in succession on future 



