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light, rich, loamy earth, enriched with rotten manure, 

 ground bones, and lime. It is better to extend the bor- 

 der in breadth than in depth."— C/ta^Zes Mcintosh, Lon- 

 don, 1839. 



Clement Uoare, in an after-edition of his work on the 

 Grape Yine, recommends that, for winter-forcing, the 

 vines be planted on the inside of the graperj', and, to do 

 this properly, he says the soil should be removed from 

 the inside of the house, which is to be supported by a 

 wall of solid masonry on all sides to prevent the roots of 

 the vines penetrating it to the outside. After the soil is 

 removed, his plan is to pave the ground with brick, set 

 in cement, and this s-p&ce is intersected with brick work, 

 with openings occasionally, for the roots to penetrate and 

 ramble. This brick work is to be a support for the 

 bricks which are to cover the whole, after completion. 

 The substances, in which the vines are to grow, are bro- 

 ken bricks, lumps of mortar, charcoal, and bones, in 

 equal proportions, soaked in urine. His idea is, that these 

 materials, once moistened and then placed in the situa- 

 tion prepared as above, can never become dry; that the 

 moisture of the earth will keep' the whole mass suflScient- 

 ly supplied with water, and that it never can have an ex- 

 cess. In planting the vines, the roots are to be carefully 

 spread out, freed from all soil. It is advised to have two 

 pieces of woolen blanket, which are to be first soaked in 

 soap suds, to plant the vines in, — one to be spread on 

 the bottom and the roots laid on this, and the other to 

 cover them ; when this is done, cover over with the com- 

 post above named, and, when the whole is paved over or 

 the top, the work is complete. This, it will be observed, 



