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LX. Notice of certain Vineries at various places in Scotland, 

 with Arched Hanging Trellises. By Mr. William Smith, 

 Under Gardener in the Arboretum Department of the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick. 



Read September 19, 1826. 

 The practice of training Vines in hot-houses upon arched 

 hanging trellises, seems to have originated in a desire to get 

 rid of the inconvenience which is felt in Vineries, where the 

 under surface of the roof is entirely covered, the close shade 

 thereby produced preventing any thing from growing under 

 it, and rendering a trellis upon the back wall almost useless. 



That this is an evil which is generally felt, especially in 

 places where the accommodation is not sufficient for the 

 things required to be produced, is evident, from the very 

 general practice of covering the roofs of houses partially, or 

 of training under the rafter only, or upon three or more wires, 

 fixed under it for that purpose.* In these cases, the evil in 

 question is in a great measure removed; but still it is found 

 that the space for training is so much diminished, that the 

 practice is not altogether warrantable, unless the houses are 

 employed for some other express purpose ; and then the 

 sacrifice is compensated by the other articles which are cul- 

 tivated at the same time. 



The hanging trellis has therefore this superiority, that 

 while it admits light to the interior of the house, it encreases 

 the space for training considerably. The first use of a trellis, 

 of this description, of which I have any account, appears to 

 have been at Balcarras, the seat of the Honourable Robert 

 Lindsay. A notice of it was communicated by his Gardener, 



* When an open space is left under the glass between the rafters, much benefit 

 is derived to the fruit growing under the rafters, by the direct admission of the 

 sun's rays; this advantage equally results where hanging trellises are used. 



