THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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or get foul, and should be allowed to escape, and the house 

 re-charged with fresh air. 



It sometimes happens that vines, which have not been pruned 

 until a short time before they are begun to be forced, as well 

 as those, whose shoots may not have been fully ripened in au- 

 tumn, will bleed after vegetation has begun, which, if not 

 prevented, will materially weaken the vines, and injure the 

 forthcoming crop. This bleeding is not easily prevented ; but, 

 as in all cases, a preventive is better than a cure, it will, if it 

 once happen to a gardener to any serious extent, sufficiently 

 remind him of the necessity of pruning his vines in autumn, 

 oon after vegetation ceases, but not till the w^ood be ripe. 

 vVere this always attended to, this complaint would seldom 

 require a cure. 



Many remedies for bleeding have been used. Abercrombie 

 recommends searing the place over, and covering it with melted 

 wax ; or with warm pitch spread upon a piece of bladder ; or 

 to peel off the outside bark to some distance from the place, 

 and then press into the pores of the wood a composition of 

 pounded chalk and tar, mixed to the consistency of putty. 



Speechly recommends to peel off, or divest that part of the 

 branch adjoining the wound of all the outside bark, then with 

 a sponge to dry up the moisture, and immediately to wrap 

 round the wounded part a piece of an ox's bladder, spread over 

 with tar, or pitch made warm, in the manner of a plaster ; then 

 tie the whole securely with a strong thread, well rubbed with 

 bees'-wax : these must remain on for three weeks or a month. 



Nicol recommends searing the wound with a hot poker, or 

 red-hot iron, in order to dry it, and then to apply hot wax. 



Knight, in a communication to the Ilort. Soc, recommends 

 four parts of scraped cheese to be added to one part of cal- 

 cined oyster-shells, or other pure calcareous earth, and this 

 composition pressed strongly into the pores of the wood. 



When the vine is in full leaf, it is not liable to bleed when 

 cut, therefore the largest branches may be cut during the 

 growing season with safety. 



Vines are also cultivated in almost every pine-stove ; how- 

 ever, the introduction of low pits for cultivating the latter, 

 from the want of sufficient room, precludes the vines from 



