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arin he says, “In fact t 
Vineries ciso feet kms 20 “ia one 
eee ere fit to send to a nobleman ’s table.” 
Now Ww, it i: is Wed.” “hat t he 
was again pe are an opinion about what he never 
saw, for two of the houses were empty (except a a few 
the top of t re and nearly 
well as 
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and stemming (?) Now, is it to be wonder a xi that 
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gularity in the pruning? Over and over 
obliged ed to let bat laterals run because o the 
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been cut from the third house when I left. That this |1 
em s0. ore than í 
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way. Iti 
sS! ti mething m han a hasty generalisa- | in the i saa: to rstood, however, 
i i iat, eee i ly menti the four houses that the "Vines were not bearing all th me; they 
but attempts still minuter detail, and gives length | carried exeessive crops — berries at nd banches 
n of the range; but even igures equalled by any Vinery in the kingdom, and with t 
are wrong, for it is not 180 feet by 20 fe 164 feet these he se eh 
by 18 feet. To review further in detail “ al -| have continued up è o the present: year. e Raby 
unicat: ould be a waste of time and space, and I | Vines are not, as everybody e the only ones 
leave your readers to form their own estimate of the | have suffered from British shee ms few years ago Mr. 
value to be placed upon his opinions and statements. | Spencer, wh, i bfe ie nown to many of your 
As I intend this to be oF a f atebutii to the con- | readers, wrote to me asking how I succeeded i in ane 
be uninterestin row Vines un 
g to some of the 
f leida of the past and 
present state of the Vines at Raby, believing 
as I do that horticulture is only an aw — can ill 
was 
great | 
e leaves ou ng the eyes intended 
Shoot after shoot was destroyed 
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tan 
I still ho jdi to my. opinion 
terly un 
r to tl 
f E. an oxo 
Willow which iyi known), is nee 2 
Codlins- -an nd-cr cream cannot with 
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Cap nstle 
its pie on the Vines, spoke of it and wrote to me 
ein 
that ungla but. that. o of 45°. 
won came te 
afford to despise “practical authority.” _ 
Ta I have referred is but a ran ig 
Sika = 1d} 
prior to establish any premises, it owe assumes 
ter of a 
shore wished to have a hous 
e genu 
two o thre ee occasions App by diagrams, kes seems 
nts. But t am not yet at the aa of my 
ccidents. At the second season my em- 
e fo sen to supply early | in 
a res 
wo uld ‘cone our; ad ain 
that a quantity town. A second house soon follow ed. Now 
the Vine borders ; and secondly, t that no extrinsic this was a departure Fro om the ori gin: nal pun for 
p f injuring the Vines, tl at fi 
carrion was the cause, &c.; and “R. T.” even goes so | for this purpose; the roof being at too grea n angle, 
far escribe a “compact, stinking, adhesive mass, | &c. Nevertheless uon both did théir ash pate ‘till 
like putty,” which he is pleased to a d,”” br ree years ago, _ an they were very e exte ensiv ely 
Now unfortunately for this kind rising, both t d 1 though tl 
his kind of theorising. 
premises are false, and epe the greed sions also. | 
rd made urf pared fr ad arya of 
pasture and 6 inches of tho soil below, ung, 
whole and ground bones, brickbats, ime are q 
de are ak the Pein a use of flowers of sulphur, the 
charcoal, but did not contain a single dead c carease, ‘The 
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expect at an; 
on all sides asa EEE I | sugges ested 
ing botanists: te 
Min were so injured, especially those in the first | ins sai 
hou e, that I would, had my ssa oye consen aez aye r 
fi the 
para I 
matter (dead deer, which had been completely disinte- 
grated, in a compact heap) ; and it would: al appear r from 
“R. T” ’s account that the roots. 
regard to theory, had preferred this. 
P, 
with which the Vines have iad 
to contend, let me premise that I am not by y any means 
out the range. In addition to all this the Viner 
that Le me a not too cr E existence, 
growing, however, an average crop of Nera It is 
par pany hom that “R. T.” draws his picture from, 
appears my suocessor has been fortunate 
eit will induce him to repeat the process through- 
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like the state described by a = y EN t that tl 
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worse, for he tells us to 
nother, thus vistoally sanctioning t 
a large Satanei pis d many of them "hough |n 
v some ety in ing t tl 
ge (by this I mean some variation A the me Te- 
the 
jer a 
first | 
feet from th suffered sev erely 
concluding, ï must apologise for this Jong trespa 
its scorching g powers, more aon the vom soe Bi: 
a Pr and this pose it al 
and second honses was indifferent ; j 
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heavy crop. The Vineries at po 
a practi are Ar ny my w were ed | 
y m el range; andri in a paniri such 
they ite. eo. anid such they are now. As they were 
intendéd for middle 
late season vipeuting, thoy.) 
article that I notice it at all, I must. ask 
to 
hes opportunity a sere hoon int ny 
d as it is only because that “attack “peek as be whey: ing s0 y influenc 
ore intended + be | editorial ale eid 
to find space for my letter. To those a Lime 
prs the younger end of it whe re not learnt to oid cannot think tow" eeply: y 
hom ractical a stall š crane 
give suc she adi ice as an exper 
an 
were given a lar arge a angle of erta a fter consul 
as induced to glaze 
thon with the notorious British ious glass, 21 oz. to 
the 8 at that time just coming into the market. 
This ae ery £ reason t 
n the n 847 
the hice Presa pee the strongest of them not 
thicker th se quill, With a qs heat to.the 
roots they | tack away bana 7 Dn tan om 2 
| employme nt ethan emolumen ahs an 
the con troversy on Vine-gowing 
if pel pes y the 
ast N 
rs has made u 
me, a great part of which time ET. fallowed it rather for | 
e ends, aid | and 
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before, my sha 
n my connbétign with a profession. James Robert: 
2, Ebury Street, Pimlic 
foreign grown Ve egetable Seed, —Mr, Cathill in- 
uires “ 
to haye their seeds ripened in the south of France?” 
Ir eside i in the north of England, and my experience 
int which constitutes 
pant Is it pn that T 
nd am still so ani 
per Minha need about 5 feet up t my 
eat chagrin, one nee sunny day I y“ ead int sh of 
five of the leads hanging down black wre be ad, 
their fine some foliage covered with n us hago 
brown blo maithi ye ibe due to | 
the Sorehin P powers sof the glass. B fore they attained 
your seed from an earlier climate than your own. In 
oot of a a neighbour of mine some years re- | o 
and | ceived from the south of England some Chevalier | m 
Bar it lands with rom ba 
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the same ry previously | grown on his own farm. 
w words abont a vale gO 
the limits I the firs M, viz, 
the top of the house, they were stopped. i in a oa Lindi 
of a fortnight ‘ponte his be the 
manner three or four times; ak ind only t 
Vines on the ag ho’ 
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ne escape, 
Fron tik thie ree prc of the ne 7 Smee d shoots, 
Bat here again I was doomed to disappointment, for the 
to 
roroi that the south coun 
ntry year 
it again with be same result, and this yeara f 
second y ear about a 
week, , the thi rd y r the same time aie own, I have 
ate - sess by mo The Horse 
vt ea rly fr ame Pens” from the south bat 2 nok an 
of fixin ng one for mages 
Som ot M T, Benthans ) =. 
ou have | 
g recat 
umber. Tam 
modest 
have st 
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u propose § 
e of the noble Elm j 
ve is not only brittle 
ys quite s 
eached | come — er into bl variety g 
at home. If on the enie hand you require bulk of 
of Mangel Wurzel, then have your 
i ve had my Mang 
root, isi in the case 
seed 
m: 
Wurzel seed from the south and always find many 
seed. Three years ago l 
ran short of | commo: 
hi wan Of t 
ighbo 
me some. I remarked that the plants from tl 
no 
urderous power. “By the end 
of ‘ee thi nd season I fos db ecome Cony vine that th 
mee remedy was to reglaze the ran When I repre. 
sented this | plo: ploy 
peni iat Sih caus ee of gla: 
and Tess 4 to other people’s theories! Thus t =n 
BE 
field unghie Bi. mys ge fa plant re whilst I 
hi reat many that 
es miee ; ‘i ihe 
| moisture, which it "to retain its ‘in character 
The same hatter re abdtiinatiie | holds good Do 
tain degree al a land ; thus, if you pried att 
of prevention The next season I had the ete ered 
will grow | late. Gardeners: know this | in ei gars 
seed in anything like the | 
Last sel 
i ea Li ids 
e he Mangel Wurzel is a remark aT val tik - ae ‘tat I Tare zs 
repre- bien rhc. ins ae pa it with great cantities g nasty. Í 
e ushes Sacked and ary clim nate till it pas oti 
h it Fie Wi nee more 
imagine that I have remit 
i ae 
early, if you mow late the Grass |“ aoe to me th tat Lagi ee Bes , 
shouid eel a wide ‘a gracing an 
onghT cannotsee he 
tt : 
ae a wii? 
don, 
outside with what. the painters call “ dryers, ii 
he 
pound of “on and oil. t this tt 
opaqne, and it was necessary to was again with 
soda to h ri ther scheme was to | of 
b se 
involved s iture of Pa d 
trouble, to say nothing oft the bad practice f shading fas i 
A 
, Vines the same. K. wv 
nn Giot aurea, var. pyramidalis —I inclose a sprig | ac 
het 
Ha an 
ree and Black 
tial annual; to nothing can it be red wi 
t- ith bt as 
greater correctness than to plumes oi f golden-coloured | m my 
ostr pn feathers. The sprig I send = in as p5 bloom | 
at shpat on August 12. In fact, I am e |an 
e 
hero ea Byrs abandoned. The only 
appeared i the eff ich 
was ventilation, ap T had an addition eie namber of lights | and 
made to ran, eyer the lower light so as tò admit 
bon rested on its culture as Celosia aurea does, | m 
poker 
to say not a gardener in five hundred | ti 
ant of it. Ofsome dozen n English nursery: ! 
iste 
ily. “The do 
