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«n(l more of which I liave got into action. I shall continue to introduce 

 others till the middle of Juno; if lean starve them into dornianoy by cold 

 b\rnk exposure, or by burying- them in clay-cold murkey graves or caves! or 

 by being sunk under a wall on a north aspect. I am beggingof all my friends, 

 the long brandies winch they cut out in prtming; and as fin- as Somerset- 

 shire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, &.c. &c., so that I expect, in a short 

 time, to have a stock of {)lants sufficient to produce one thousand bunches 

 the first season. 



I should not have sent this account to you at this time, had it not been my 

 anxious desire that the public should be in possession of it, ere tlie season 

 for finishing vine pruning is ])ast. It is certain it soon will be, and then one 

 year's enjoyment is lost ; ancl tliat I am sure would be a year of vexiition to 

 many of your amateur readers. Tiiat such may not be the case, I most anx- 

 iously beg of you not to lose a month ; but, if it can be inserted in no other 

 place of next Register, let it be inserted as a postscript. 



Postscript. — More about coiling Vines. By Mr. Mearns. 



I hope to see a postscript attached to the February number of the Register, 

 upon the coilingsystem of grape vines, as I should indeed be sorry if your read- 

 ers were to lose a season so important in the cultivation of that desirable ob- 

 ject. Put in your cuttings of young wood, in coils of three, four, to five feet, 

 blinding all the eyes except the two uppermost. I choose to leave two eyes 

 till the finest gets the lead, and is safe, for fear of accident to one alone ; I then 

 slip tlie weakest off". If placed into a bottom heat, and the eyes be buried about 

 &i\ inch or two in the pots, in the course of coiling, by tlie time the best ey« 

 appears above the soil, as strong as the bud of a fine asparagusl The whole 

 coils beneath will be completely occupied with young active roots; and by 

 the time the shoots are four feet long, the pot will be a perfect mat of those 

 eager feeders. Then shift and top the shoot, and never leave on any laterals ; 

 plunge as before into a fine bottom lieat ; and encourage the main topmost 

 eye alone to push, and lead it on, but without laterals, till it is again four feet 

 long; when, if the pot is full of roots, shift, top it as before; and encourage 

 again the uppermost eye only to start ; and by the time it is another four feet, 

 if not over-potted before, it will require a tliirfl shifting. If required, you 

 may stop at every four feet, five or six times ; but three shiftiiigs will be found 

 enough for the season ; and you had best not suffer it to reach above from 

 twelve to twenty feet of clear bearing wood. At the end of the season, you 

 will have shoots one inch and a half diameter, and with fine bold eyes, and 

 full of fine set bunches for the next season ! 



You will readily jjerceive, that by such an early and abundant accu- 

 mulation of young vigorous roots, and by such a toj) and bottom maiia<rement, 

 it is no extraordinary miracle to have every cutting a fruit bearing shoot at 

 one season's growth ; and by a jiroportional coi! of large older wood, it will 

 be equally obvious to you how readily such will produce a fine crop the first 

 season ! 



I expect to have the pleasure of a visit from you soon, when I fimcy you 

 will be gratified as well as satisfied with its success, and extraordinary sim- 

 plicity. I think you must be well aware of its great importance to the world ; 

 and if ever such a method had been ])reviously adopted, it would have been 

 noticed long ere this, and its importance would have caused it to be generally 

 ado[)ted. As such has not been the case, I think it must be allowed to orig- 

 inate from me. 



The extraordinary progress of my grapes upon the coiled vines, ])Iaccd in 

 a bottom lieat, astonishes everyone. In aiioihcr season, when 1 have got 

 my wood early ri])ened, I intend to start som<! in October, ami to have [)lenty 

 of fine ri[)e grapes by the middle of February. I have some at this time half 

 grown, the brancli being only cut from the vine, and placed in bottom heat 

 20th of November! "Can such things be?" yes, easily and simply so. I 



