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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



No. 2. — Started 1st of December. Black Hamburgh, Buckland Sweet- 

 water, and Black Prince, the former fit for cutting the middle of May. 



No. 3. — Started January 1st. Black Hamburgh, Black Prince. Lady 

 Downe's, grafted on the Hamburgh, comes in very useful after the latter is 

 over ; and Muscat Hative de Saumur for a White. This is a large house, and 

 furnishes a supply from middle of June till early in August. 



No. 4.— Started end of February. A selection of sorts, with Hamburghs 

 for the principal Vines, ripe August and September. 



No. 5. — Break of own accord. All Hamburghs, ripe generally early in 

 September. I find for them to hang well they ought to be ripe by the middle 

 of September. I find they keep much better ripened by this time than later. 

 From these Vines we have a supply for November, December, January, and 

 some seasons as late as the end of February. 



No. 6. — Started March 1st. All Muscat of Alexandria. 



No. 7. — Latest. Barbarossa, West's St. Peter's, Lady Downe's, Old Tokay, 

 and Trebbiano. This house has but little rest — -just sufficient time to wash or 

 paint the inside, top-dress the border, &c. The fruit is always hanging on 

 these till the middle of March. Some growers recommend cuttiug the 

 bunches off, sealing the ends, and suspending in fruit-rooms or some cool 

 place ; but I find if they will not keep on the Vine they will not off. 



The same result may be obtained from six vineries, with care in making 

 the selection for each house, for early, late, or intermediate. To our No. 1 , 

 I should recommend Muscat Hative de Saumur and Buckland Sweetwater for 

 Whites ; and to No. 7, the latest, a Vine of Kempsey Alicante and Burchardt's 

 Prince. The latter will be planted extensively when better known. Such is 

 my practice for a supply of Grapes all the year round, and we generally 

 succeed in producing good fruit. 



Keele Hall Gardens. William Hill, 



VAPOUR FOR VINERIES AND PLANT-STOVES. 



I have seen many plans, tried — some have troughs cast on the flow-pipes, 

 others zinc troughs with half-circular bottoms to fit over the pipes, and others 

 use brick ones ; but in my opinion neither of the above plans is effective ; 

 and unless the pipes are almost on a dead level they are useless. Mr. Thomson 

 in his excellent " Treatise on the Vine " gives a plan for producing steam, 

 which he says answers admirably. I do not doubt this ; for as far back as 

 1835 I had at work in a fruiting-Pine-pit one like it, with the exception that 

 the return, which I carried into the return-pipe to the boiler, instead as Mr. 

 Thomson's into the same pipe. 



Mr. Bailey, who, I believe, heated the extensive range of houses in the 

 gardens of Her Majesty at Frogmore, came down to Salisbury (by coach in 

 those days), to see it at work ; but whether he improved upon it I have not 

 heard. I found it inconvenient where stands were required over the pipes ; 

 also, you must have your feeding-cistern and trough exactly upon a level. 



For several years I had in a fruiting Pine-pit, also a Cucumber-house, a 

 one-inch wrought-iron pipe let into the flow-pipe at one end of the house, 

 from thence through an open cast-iron shoot 4 by 3 inches into the return-pipe 

 at the other end. This answered in every way to my satisfaction. 



In a rather extensive range of houses at present being erected for Sir J. H. 

 Greville Smyth, Bart., by Messrs. Weeks & Co., under the able directions of 

 their architect and manager, Mr. Deal, I am carrying out the same system ; 

 but had I come here a little earlier I should have improved upon it by dis- 



