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and sucli a convenience once obtained will last many years, as it may be 
removed during the summer season and packed away, and the channel in 
which the outside heating apparatus is placed, may at the same time be 
covered over to prevent any unsightly appearance, further than the row of 
boards or flags, as the top will be level with the surrounding surface. That 
good grapes have been and still will continue to be forced early without 
such an appendage is reasonably admitted, but is it not more in accordance 
with nature to supply the roots with warmth at the same time as the tops, 
and is there not a greater probability that success will be more certain and 
the yield comparatively superior, besides the enabling of the plants to go 
through the various stages of development, and after concentration, with 
less injury to the whole body. 
It is generally conceded that a house cannot be forced very early, for 
many years, without the vines becoming weak and exhausted, consequently 
many growers go on the plan of alternating from one house to another 
each, or every other season ; thereby as they acknowledge, resting the vines. 
Where all other requisites are added to good culture, there is no good 
reasoning here, for, when once a plant has been induced by forcing to break 
early, it is afterwards disposed to the same, and it only requires half the 
amount of heat to start such a plant, that will be necessary, for one that 
has not been brought the season previously to the same condition. As to 
the weak and slender bearing wood, it is quite reasonable that, that is a 
consequence of the tops being unduly excited, while the roots are confined 
in a cold base, and therefore have not the power to supply the plant with 
the proper juices in sufficient quantity for its. own development. The best 
cultivators are aware of this fact, and the adoption of the above plan has 
resulted in the most marked success, and we have known houses which were 
forced year after year produce heavy crops of fine fruit, when the borders 
were covered as advised. It is not to be expected that, as fine bunches, or 
as large berries can be produced from the earliest crops, but a good quality 
may be obtained uninterruptedly is a fact that needs no further demon- 
stration. 
Wm. Chorlton.. 
ROSES OF 1854. 
Never since Roses have been cultivated in England to any extent, has 
such a fatal season as the past been experienced by the growers. The 
severe frost in winter killed nearly all the buds of the tea-scented and 
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