414) Vinexjard at Collin Deep^ 



they are turned out of the pots, a part of their balls is removed, 

 and they are repotted in compost of one half rich loam, one 

 fourth peat, and one fourth well decomposed leaf mould. The 

 pots used are 12 in. in diameter. Little or no water is applied 

 until there are indications of a movement in the sap. The 

 plants are then slightly watered, increasing the quantity as the 

 shoots advance, with water kept at a temperature nearly equal 

 to that of the stove, which, at that season of the year, is from 

 55'^ to 60°. By the middle of January, the young shoots, toge- 

 ther with the flower buds, begin to appear, when regular and 

 rather plentiful watering is continued till all the buds have per- 

 fected their blossoms, always remembering to use warm water ; 

 for if cold water be used, at this particular season, it will cause 

 every bud to drop, and thus ruin all. All young shoots, not 

 bearing blossom buds, when about 2 in. long, are shortened to 

 1 in. from their base as often as they appear. 



Under this kind of management, one plant under my care has 

 produced no fewer than sixty of its beautiful blossoms this 

 season ; many of the spurs having two, and some three, flowers 

 on each spur ; the flowers delightfully succeeding each other for 

 the space of six weeks or two months. It aflPords me pleasure 

 to add, that there is every probability that it will ripen seed ; 

 and the seed-pods, at present, are 3 J in. long, and l^in. in 

 diameter. It has four of these pods, each looking well, and 

 bidding fair to arrive at maturity. 



The stoves under my care being low, I am necessitated to 

 confine the plants to the above height : but, in stoves of an 

 elevation to admit plants of six, eight, or more feet in height, if 

 grown and flowered with the above success, the effect would be 

 imposing, and highly gratifying to the persons who might suc- 

 ceed in bringing them to such a high state of perfection. 



Clowance^ Corrvwalli April 15. 1836. 



Art. IX. Some Account of the Vineyard at Collin Deep, near 

 Hendon, Middlesex. By James Bamford, Esq. 



In furtherance of the wish expressed in your notice of the vine- 

 dresser's knife (fig. 43. p. 323.), I forward the following short 

 history of the vineyard at Collin Deep. I was induced to cultivate 

 this vineyard from my attention having been for some time turned 

 to the vine ; and from being struck by the singularity of the cir- 

 cumstance, that, whilst all other fruits had become more general, 

 and their management better understood, the vine should have 

 decreased not only in the numbers cultivated, but have become 

 confined within narrower limits than formerly. 



