November 28, 190S 



HORTI CULTURE 



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INDOOR FRUIT CULTURE. 



Paper Read by William Downs before the 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Boston. 



{Continued from pagt boj) 



We built our graperies with low 

 walls, giving a deeper front light than 

 usual, thus giving so much additional 

 rod space for fruiting. For carrying 

 the heating pipes and walks in the 

 place of the usual brick piers we used 

 2-in. galvanized pipes with uprights 

 resting on the concrete. For drainage 

 I made a regular Telford foundation 

 about 8 in. thick, (having plenty of 

 stone at hand), and over that put good 

 strong sod with the grass down. Now 

 as to the construction of the border 

 itself; it is not necessary to make it 

 more than 4 feet wide the first season 

 and add to it as the roots make their 

 way through it. A good strong loam 

 cut with the grass on, about 6 in. thick, 

 is the best. This should be chopped 

 up roughly, and a good sprinkling of 

 inch bones be added. If there is any 

 danger of the soil becoming close some 

 old lime rubble should be mixed with 

 it, it being very necessary that it 

 should be kept open. To this I would 

 add one-fourth cow manure, as most of 

 the loam we get is inclined to be poor. 

 Yet I would not aim at too ttrong a 

 growth the first season; by that I 

 mean a soft sappy growth. I re- 

 member seeing once a magnificent 

 house of canes the first season and 

 they bore inferior bunches when 

 they fruited. A healthy cane will 

 grow tremendously the first season 

 without much manure. 



Planting and Cutting Back. 



The border being ready to receive 



the vines, comes the question of what 

 to plant. I prefer to grow my own 

 canes from vine eyes and plant out of 

 6 in. pots. We commenced our own 

 houses as soon as the frost was out of 

 the ground and I had good nice plants 

 in Gin. pots from eyes root3d that 

 spring and they grew splendidly. We 

 grew several of them in pots to fruit 

 the next season and they grew to be 

 ten or twelve feet tall. We also 

 planted some year-old vin^s at the 

 same time, cut back to one too: liom 



the ground, and the G-in. pot vines 

 made just as satisfactory growth as 

 the older ones. 



I want to digress here to say that 

 we planted a row of vines on either 

 side of the walk in the centre of the 

 house to fruit temporarily and then, as 

 the permanent ones grew up, to be dis- 

 carded. These were from the 6-in. 

 pots and the second season carried 

 quite a number of bunches each. In 

 sixteen months from starting I exhib- 

 ited bunches of Muscat of Alexandra 



Chrysanthemum Charles II. Totty. 



