HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



Mr llav. Dot sunk into the back-wall, as used formerly to 

 be the case- 

 There arc two small vineries, which did not afford us 

 much satisfaction. The vines are planted in front, on the 

 outside of the house. Every year a new set of wood is 

 taken into the vinery : the wood produced this year, is 

 trained upright on an exterior trellis, and is next season laid 

 down to a sloping trellis, and made to yield its fruit within 

 die house. The wood which has once been forced, is cut 

 entirely out ; and from the same roots, new upright shoots 

 are annually required. The sashes were now removed, but 

 the shoots which had been forced in the spring remained ; 

 and a bare inspection was sufficient to satisfy any one, that 

 they could have afforded but few grapes, the wood of 

 last year having been extremely imperfect. The exterior 

 upright shoots of this season were, at the same time, in a 

 very backward state ; and there was now (16th August) 

 little prospect of their acquiring maturity this year. Were 

 the climate, in the early part of the summer, sufficient to 

 produce shoots approaching to the woody state, the more 

 completely exposed to cold weather such shoots after- 

 wards remained, the more hard and firm would the wood 

 become, and the greater would be the prospect of success 

 in forcing. But, even in the neighbourhood of Ghent, at 

 least in unfavourable seasons, like that of 1816, the shelter 

 of a wall does not always ensure the ripening of the wood. 

 There are four peach-houses, of small dimensions, and 

 frith low roofs. The trees are trained to the back wall; 

 they are in but indifferent order, and infected with the 

 white insect. In front of them are pits filled with tanners 7 

 barkj containing sonic succession pine-apples, and also a 

 tew ornamental plants. The practice of thus forming pits 

 in peach-houses (too prevalent in our own country), must. 



