Oct.] 



THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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performed in the two following months, as from the nature 

 of the season, particularly if the glass be off, the ingi'edients 

 will be liable to be washed off by heavy rains, &c. 



The shoots and branches should be now regularly laid in 

 and properly tied to the trellis, dividing the whole as regu- 

 larly over the space as possible, and placing them at regular 

 distances from each other ; and should it appear that any 

 shoot is ill-placed, or too many left, they can be now removed 

 or shortened, more particularly the young shoots, so that when 

 they come to break into wood, they may not be too thick and 

 crowded. In regard to the naked stems, some of which will 

 still remain on the vines as conductors of the young wood to 

 the remote parts of the trellis, it matters not how close they 

 are placed together, as from them no shoots are to be allowed 

 to issue ; and where it is necessary, some of the young shoots 

 may be trained upon them, which will hide their more naked 

 appearance. The matting chosen for tying up the vines should 

 be new and fresh, as it will in some cases have a considerable 

 weight to sustain ; and, in tying them up, care must be taken 

 to allow plenty of room for their future swelling- 



The borders of the house may be slightly dug over, which 

 will give a neater appearance to them, until they be again put 

 into a state for forcing ; and, if it be deemed necessary, the 

 borders, both inside and outside of the house, may be mulched 

 over with a coating of good half-rotten dung. 



By the beginning of this month, the vines in pine-stoves, if 

 any be planted on the outside of the house, and trained up the 

 inside rafters, as is the usual mode, should now be taken out of 

 the house and trained to the front outside, or to stakes placed 

 for this purpose in the ground, where they should remain till the 

 end of December, or till such time as it may be thought proper 

 to take them in again. This has been our practice for several 

 years, but many excellent cultivators do not take them out at 

 all, and we find this was the practice of -M'Phail, and is 

 also the practice of Mr. Shepherd, of Sunbury, a commercial 

 cultivator, and of many other successful vine-growers of the 

 present day. 



Amongst the various modes of training the vine in vineries, 



