Training the Vine on hanging Trellises. 40? 



Art. V. Result of a Trial of Vines trained on hanging Trel- 

 lises in the Garden of R. Bruce, Esq., of Kef met, Clackman- 

 nanshire. By Mr. James Barnet, Curator of the Experi- 

 mental Garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. 



Dear Sir, 



It is not my intention, in the following attempt, to compare 

 training on hanging trellises with every mode of training vines 

 in vineries ; I only propose to notice the result of this practice, 

 compared with that of the most prevalent and usual modes of 

 training to wire trellises placed parallel to the roof, and at the 

 distance of 1 ft. or 1 ft. 3 in. from it. 



When the vines are trained so as wholly to cover the roofj 

 the practice is considered by some objectionable, as excluding 

 too much light. To remove this objection, Mr. Archibald 

 Reid, of Balcarras, introduced trellises depending vertically 

 from each rafter, and averaging about 4 ft. in depth, as al- 

 ready described in your Magazine, vol. ii. p. 42?., and in the 

 Caledonian Horticultural Transactions, vol. iii. p. 465., and 

 partially adopted in private gardens, perhaps to a greater 

 extent than they deserve. 



Half of a vinery in the garden of R. Bruce, Esq., was sub- 

 jected to the Balcarras mode; the other half was left as for- 

 merly, trained up the roof. The vines were then in full 

 bearing, having been planted twenty years. The depth of 

 trellis in front, or at its commencement, is 1 ft., gradually 

 increasing in a curved line to 3 ft. 6 in. at the back ; it is com- 

 posed of strips of wood four eighths by three eighths of an 

 inch thick, placed vertically, and nailed to the rafter at the 

 upper end, and at the lower to a piece of wood half an inch 

 thick by 3 in. broad, forming the same curve as the lower part 

 of the trellis, but placed 4 in. higher than the ends of the 

 laths. These spars are 1 ft. apart from each other, and placed 

 opposite on both sides of the rafter. [A little different from the 

 trellis described Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 428 v y%. 127.} 



On this trellis the vines, which had formerly been on the 

 roof, were now trained. The house was slowly forced, com- 

 mencing about the middle of March, 1820, and the routine 

 course pursued, the temperature ranging from 65° to 85°. 

 The crop was ready to gather about the end of July. Although 

 a portion of the clusters nearest the glass on the hanging 

 trellis began to colour a few days before those on the roof, 

 the bunches on its sides were later ; so that, generally, those 

 on the roof were as forward as those on the hanging trellis. 

 The bunches on the lower part remained later by a week, 

 paler in colour, and did not acquire so fine a flavour as those 



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