102 Description of a Forcing House for Grapes. 



improved culture of those fruits to the Horticultural Society 

 at a future opportunity. 



The Vine often bleeds excessively when pruned in an im- 

 proper season, or when accidentally wounded, and I believe 

 no mode of stopping the flow of the sap is at present known 

 to gardeners. I therefore mention the following, which I 

 discovered many years ago, and have always practised with 

 success : if to four parts of scraped Cheese be added one part 

 of calcined Oyster shells, or other pure calcareous earth, and 

 this composition be pressed strongly into the pores of the 

 wood, the sap will instantly cease to flow : so that the largest 

 branch may of course be taken off at any season with safety. 



