324 THE FORCING GARDNER. jJB*ti 



preferred. The frontinacs, mufcadines/ 

 and fweet- waters, would be greatly impro- 

 ved, and rendered more durable for this 

 compartment, by being engrafted on the 

 Syrian, or any of the other coarfe grow- 

 ing kinds : but the Syrian is the moft pro- 

 per for a ftock, t>f any. 



Grape Vines will bear forcing, and laft 

 for many years, if under judicious ma- 

 nagement : but it frequently happens, (e- 

 *fpecially where the gardener is often chan- 

 ged), that the plants run out of a proper 

 ftock df bearing wood, either for want of 

 keeping the border in a proper condition 

 in refpecS of trenching and manuring, or 

 by being irregularly and ' untimouily for- 

 ced. To recover which, the plants fhould 

 be cut down to the la ft eye on the three 

 loweft fhoots of the former year, upon 

 each ; the roots fhould be cut to within a 

 yard of the ftem on each fide y and the 

 border fhould be trenched up, and, if ne- 



ceflary, 



the extremity in a free, growing ftate, to the lafl year's; 

 wood on the flock ; bind up with ftrands of matting ; 

 and apply no clay. The young plant will be perfect- 

 ly fecure, before tfce growth is over, the fanie feafon. 



