264 Review of Loudon's Gardenerh Magazine. 



front sashes are hung by hinges to the upper wall-plate, and open out- 

 wards at the bottom, for the purpose of admitting air. Every alternate 

 upper light is likewise movable in the usual way. The flue enters the 

 house at one end, beneath the back walk, and passes along the front 

 and the other end, one foot from the glass, returning along the house, 

 three feet six inches from the back wall, to the place where it entered ; 

 it then dips again under the walk, and enters the back wall. The flue 

 thus encloses a pit twenty-seven feet long, and eight feet six inches 

 wide, in which the trees are planted. Between the back flue and the 

 back wall there is another border, in which standard trees are planted : 

 these are trained to a trellis against the back wall. The trellis to which 

 the other trees are trained is nearly horizontal ; and it extends over the 

 whole of the house, except three feet of the back border (which, being 

 covered by a framing of boards, serves for a walk), and that part of 

 the flue which passes along the front of the house. This trellis is three 

 feet six inches high at the back, and it declines to two feet six inches in 

 front." 



The second article, on " the importance of Gardeners studying 

 the Natural System of Botany," though useful, contains nothing 

 sufficiently important to extract. 



The third article is the detail of a " new method of grafting, 

 or rather budding Vines," accompanied with an engraving. We 

 have had a copy taken of this, and present the article entire, as 

 we beheve it is the most sure and easy mode of grafting or bud- 

 ding vines that has ever come under our notice. The old system 

 of boring holes in the stems of strong vines, and also many other 

 methods in use, are very uncertain, and often, if well done, dis- 

 appoint the operator, when his expectations are formed of a suc- 

 cessful growth. The method detailed in this extract will, how- 

 ever, remedy all the defects of the more common systems : — 



" I beg to submit!»to your readers a method of grafting, or rather of 

 budding, vines, which I was led to adopt merely from my own ideas 

 of vegetable physiology, and which, I feel confident, will always be at- 

 tended with success. I am not aware that the method is at all known ; 

 at least, I have never heard of it, and to me, at least, it is quite origi- 

 nal. The well-known method of detached grafting I had tried repeat- 

 edly, but without success ; and, in endeavoring to trace the cause of 

 this failure, I remembered having seen two new vine-houses, which, 

 under the management of several most distinguished gardeners, had for 

 a series of years been partially accelerated, for the important purpose 

 of furnishing abundance of bearing wood ; and such was the failure in 

 both these instances, that, as a last resource, the vines in one of the 

 houses were cut down to the parapet every second year. In this place, 

 the gardener was changed five times in as many years ; but, when the 

 fifth made his entree, he was accompanied by a most auspicious com- 

 panion, success. In the other place, the gardeners were not more suc- 

 cessful : the buds broke so irregularly, that only two, or at most three, 

 eyes at the top of the vines appeared with sufficient strength to render 

 their retention tolerable ; while the rest of the shoots downwards were 

 as bare as a barber's pole. In both the instances alluded to, I readily 

 perceived that there was a great want of humidity in the atmosphere, 

 and, also, that there was a very rich deep border. Although, in my 

 endeavors to graft with detached scions, I had taken care to keep up a 

 very damp atmosphere, still my attempts proved abortive : to a gar- 



