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towards the top of the plant, every flower is shown to the best 

 advantage ; whereas in the general way of growing them from 

 an old stem, some of the shoots grow much stronger than 

 others, and do not in general grow with sufficient vigour to 

 flower ; or if they do flower, it is partially, and all the neat- 

 ness and regularity is lost, nor are the flowers near so large as 

 those grown by the method I have followed. The F. tenella (b) 

 is now (Sept. 1.) flowering in high perfection; arborescens (c) and 

 excorticata (d) may be treated in the same manner, and with 

 equal success. The soil I have found them do best in is, 

 equal parts of loam and bog, with about one fourth sand. 



" The F. gracilis will do much better planted out in a border, 

 than the F. coccinea, and, I believe, it will stand our winter 

 equally as well, or better, being of a more woody nature. I 

 have one now in full flower, growing in a border, three feet high, 

 and bushy in proportion, that was rooted last spring. The 

 situation in which it grows is rather shaded, Fuchsz'as gene- 

 rally not liking full exposure to the sun. No plants are more 

 liable to be injured by the Thrips and red spider." 



60. Notice of Vineries with arched hanging Trellises. By Mr. W. 

 Smith, Under Gardener in the Arboretum Department in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society. 



The common practice in vineries, of training the trees from 

 the front to the back, upon laths or wires fixed to the rafters 

 under the whole of the glass roof, forms so impervious a 

 shade to the floor and back wall of the house, as to render 

 both these places almost useless for any other purpose. To 

 get rid of this inconvenience, it occurred to Mr. Archibald 

 Read, gardener at Balcarras, to confine the vines to the space 

 immediately beneath each rafter ; and in order to retain the 

 same or an additional number of fruit-bearing shoots, he 

 formed a kind of drop, or hanging trellis, by wires fixed to 

 each side of the rafter, descending vertically, and attached to 

 a slight wooden frame of the same width of the rafter, fixed 

 from the front to the back wall, and depending from two feet 

 at the front of the house, to five feet at the back part. Each 

 rafter having such a frame, the vines are trained on each side 

 of them, by which contrivance a greater surface of fruitful 

 vines is obtained, and also a far greater share of light. 



Different modifications of this plan have been adopted; 

 one of the simplest is, a single surface of wires [Jig. 126. a) 

 suspended by iron rods. The judicious gardener will adopt 

 wires or wood, a double or single trellis, and greater or less 

 depth, as may best suit the particular circumstances of his 

 case ; he will not forget to allow himself head-room over the 



