[4] 



II. Account of an improved Method of planting Vines for 

 forcing. In a Letter to the Assistant Secretary. By Mr. 

 Daniel Judd, F. H. S. 



Read, January 4th, 1820. 



Sir, 



Agreeably to your wish, I send you an account of my 

 management of the Vines which you saw lately, and appeared 

 to be so much pleased with, in the garden of Charles 

 Campbell, Esq. of Edmonton, of which I have the charge. 



My compost was formed as follows : in the winter of 1817, 

 I procured a quantity of the top spit of soil from a common 

 in the neighbourhood, which consisted of a rich loam, rather 

 inclining to be gritty, which property I prefer, because it 

 gives a porousness to the compost, thereby allowing the 

 water to pass freely through it. At the same time I col- 

 lected some lime rubbish, well broken to pieces and sifted, 

 some old tan, some leaf mould, and a quantity of the richest 

 old dung I could select from the forcing beds, and elsewhere. 



These materials having been kept separate, and frequently 

 turned over in the summer, were mixed together in the 

 Autumn of 18 J 8, in the following proportions; one half of 

 loam, one-fourth of dung, and one-fourth of lime rubbish, 

 united with the tan, and leaf mould. They were well mixed, 

 by frequent turnings (but were not sifted) during the winter, 

 when the weather was frosty or dry, for this operation should 

 never be performed in wet weather. 



