as ^practised at Hylands. 



night with mats, which remain 

 rolled up during the day, on the 

 portion of opaque boarded roof (Jig. 

 143. e) which serves as a coping to 

 the back wall. Two trees (Jig. 145. 

 J, g) are considered sufficient for 

 the wall of this house, and no 

 vines or other trees are trained up 

 the rafters. The details of forcing 

 do not differ from those of British 

 gardeners ; the dung-bed in front, 

 and the sun when he happens to 



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shine, supply the heat, and the operator does what he can to 



retain it by powerful coverings at night, and, in severe weather, 

 during great part of the day. 



Vines. — These are planted in the front border (Jig. 138. a), 

 and drawn through holes in the boarded partition ; they remain 

 there several years, producing crops every year. No paper 

 frames are used, as in forcing peaches : the rest is routine. The 

 soil and plants are then renewed ; the plants in the following 

 very expeditious manner : — Several vines of the sorts used in 

 forcing, which are only two, the Dutch Sweetwater, and their 

 Frankendale, which seems to be our Hamburgh, are kept as 

 stock plants against a wall, trained in the Dutch manner, i, e. 

 with vertical shoots trained from one horizontal shoot at the 

 bottom of the wall. (Encyc. ofGard., § 2966.) Small wicker 

 baskets are made about 1 ft. in diameter, and 1 8 in. in depth ; 

 one of the vertical shoots is brought down from the wall, and 

 drawn through the side of the basket near the bottom, twisted 

 just within it, and brought up and tied to a stake. The 

 basket is then filled with vegetable mould firmly pressed to 

 the shoot, and a sufficient number of baskets being so pre- 

 pared, the whole are surrounded and covered to the depth of 

 a foot or more with half-spent dung. During summer they 

 are liberally supplied with water ; and, in consequence of the 

 heat of the dung and supply of moisture, by the 1st of 



