% 



Oct,] THE FORCING GARDEN. 775 



renewed every fourth y.^ r, and from them spurs issued, which 

 produced the crop, as well as some few shoots laid in with 

 them. During the first three years of this mode of training, 

 few gi'apes were produced, and prohably from that cii'cum- 

 stance it has been almost universally laid aside. 



Forsyth's method of training vines, which he recommended 

 and adopted in the royal gardens at Kensington, was some- 

 what similar to the last ; but, instead of laying in the shoots 

 perpendicularly, he trained them in a serpentine form, from 

 an idea of making them break more regularly. 



M'Phail describes the fan manner of training vines, and 

 which, he observes, has been long practised where there is 

 extent of space. We feel inclined to justify this practice, as 

 being that of all others the most likely to produce an equal 

 distribution of young bearing-wood over the tree with the least 

 trouble or confusion. 



Hay ward recommends planting only one vine in each house, 

 and allowing it to fill the whole space intended to be covered ; 

 founding his theory very justly on the well-known fact, that 

 the greater the distance which the sap has to flow through 

 the vine, the more abundant and high-flavored will the fruit be. 

 He proposes training either in the horizontal manner, from two 

 leading shoots, or in the wavy horizontal manner : he appears 

 to give the preference to the latter plan. The only objection 

 to filling one house entirely with one kind of grapt, is the want 

 of variety. Those who have witnessed the abundant crops of 

 fine-flavored grapes produced from the celebrated Hampton- 

 Court vine ; the large vine (said to have originated from a cut- 

 ting of it) in the gardens at Cumberland Lodge, and many 

 others of large size, will be convinced that vines in general 

 have not sufficient roof allowed them, and that one plant will 

 be amply sufficient for a large vinery. 



The deputation of the Cal. Hort. Soc. in their Horticultural 

 Tour, describe having seen vines in a garden at Ghent, which 

 were planted outside of the house, and only their bearing 

 branches taken in ; the wood produced this year is trained 

 to a trellis outside the house, and the following season is 

 brought in to produce its fruit, while another set of wood is 

 forming outside for the succeeding crops. Even at Ghent, 



