306 A netv Method of grafting Vines. 



Art. VIII. On Part of the Vines, in the same Forcing-house, being 

 suspended, and Part not. By Charles Pullen, Gardener to 

 F. L. Goldsmid, Esq., Champion HilJ. 



I PROMISED, in a former communication (Vol. XII. p. 248.), 

 to state the result of the experiment, in the same forcing-house, 

 of vines part suspended, and part not. The vines operated on 

 are of six different kinds, and these ten plants in the house ; five 

 of which were suspended, viz. one White Frontignan, two Tot- 

 tenham Park Muscat, one Black Hamburgh, and one Grizzly 

 Frontignan ; and five were not suspended, but trained in the 

 usual way; viz. one White Sweet- water, one Black Hamburgh, two 

 Muscat of Alexandria, and one Grizzly Frontignan ; so that the 

 divisions are nearly equal in sorts. In reference to the memoranda 

 I kept to ascertain the progress the vines made in each division, 

 the result appears to be in favour of those suspended ; these 

 vines being between two and three weeks earlier than the others, 

 and more abundant in produce. 



Suspended Vines. 



April 25. Black Hainburgh began to 

 colour. 

 White Frontignan, ditto. 

 27. Tottenham Park Muscat, 

 ditto. 

 May 9. White Frontignan, grapes 

 ripe. 

 12. Black Hamburgh, several 



bunches ripe. 

 19. Cut Black Hamburgh and 

 White Frontignan grapes. 



All the grapes, when served at table, were esteemed excellent 

 in flavour. 



Champion Hill, Cambe7"well, Oct. 19. 1836. 



May 25. Tottenham Park Muscat, 

 grapes ripe. 



Vines not suspended. 



May 2. White Sweet-water began 

 to colour. 

 5, Black Hamburgh, ditto. 

 7. Muscat of Alexandria, ditto. 

 25. White Sweet-water grapes 

 ripe. 

 June 8. Black Hamburgh, ditto. 



18. Muscat of Alexandria, ditto. 



Art. IX. On a netv Method of grafting Vines. By William 

 Smith, Gardener at the Priory, St. Andrew's, Fifeshire. 



For several years past, I have made repeated attempts to 

 engraft vines by every method that I had either seen or read 

 of, as being practised by others ; and as often 1 have been dis- 

 appointed in the result of the operation. My object was to 

 obtain good kinds of grapes in the shortest possible time, as 

 well as to ascertain, by engrafting white kinds on black, and 

 vice versa, what effect the stock has upon the scion when the 

 fruit comes to maturity. 



In 1834;, being rather chagrined to find, after all my trouble, 

 that I was not likely to succeed, I determined, as a last resource, 

 to try a method which I had neither seen nor heard of being 



