On the Management of Fruit Trees intended for Forcing. 



turely to excite their powers of life into action, the expe- 

 diency of putting those powers into a state of rest, early 

 in the preceding autumn, appears obvious. The natural 

 propensity of the gardener to treat his plants as in some 

 degree sentient beings, and as he would wish to be himself 

 treated, which sometimes misleads him (as I have remarked in 

 a former paper),* will in this case direct him rightly, by leading 

 him to infer, that early rising requires early going to rest. I 

 shall therefore state the result of a few experiments only, 

 which will, I believe, afford satisfactory evidence of the truth 

 of the foregoing positions. 



Some Vines, which grew in pots, were placed in a forcing 

 house, at the end of January, where they produced ripe fruit 

 about the middle of July; and soon after that period, the 

 pots were taken from the house and put under the shade of 

 a north wall, in the open air. Water was subsequently given 

 in small quantities only ; and the leaves of the plants soon 

 fell off. Tn August, the plants were pruned ; and in Septem- 

 ber, they were removed to a south wall, where they soon ve- 

 getated with much vigour, and continued to grow till their 

 young shoots were killed by frost. 



Other Vines, of the same varieties, were suffered to remain 

 in the forcing-house till late in August ; where they were 

 subjected to the mode of management above described, ex- 

 cept that they were not removed from their situation under 

 a north wall, nor pruned, before the approach of winter. 

 These were then placed against a south wall, where their 

 fruit ripened well in the following season, in a climate not 



* See page 130 of this volume. 



