April 4,1895. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
285 
VEITGH’S 
SUPERB 
GLOXINIAS. 
THE FINEST IN CULTIVATION. 
YEITCH’S SUPERB SCARLET, 
Saved from otir splendid collection of high-coloured scarlet 
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VEITCH’S SUPERB MIXED. 
This strain of Gloxinia is of the most profuse flowering 
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large and open, growth vigorous. Saved from our newest 
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YEITCH’S FINEST SPOTTED. 
A charming strain, of very compact growth, and most 
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For full descriptions of other CHOICE NOVELTIES 
and SPECIALITIES, see SEED CATALOGUE for 1895, 
forwarded post free on application. 
JAMES VEITCH k SONS, 
EOYAL EXOTIO NURSERY, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
AND 
HAROY BORDER PLANTS. 
FORBES’ NEW CATALOGUE for 1895 is enlarged to about 150 
pages,and veiy materially improved,embracing everything—new 
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and HARDY PLANTS, with accurate descriptions and prices. 
Copious notes as to their origin, how and where best to grow, a 
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cannot be had elsewhere, which renders this the BEST, MOST 
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JOHN FORBES, Nurseryman, 
HAWICK, SCOTLAND. 
JACK FROST 
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BEGONIAS, SINGLE, 
20,000 Grand Bulbs, Mixed Colours, finest ever offered at the 
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Fine Plants in Best Kinds, 6s., 9s,, and 12s, per dozen. 
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IVY-LEAF PELARGONIUMS. 
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No. 771.—VoL. XXX., Third Skries, 
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2 ozs. Mixed Sweet Peas. 
J oz. Large-flowered Mignonette. 
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6 choice Half-hardy and Tender Annuals, including Balsam, 
Phlox Drummondl, Portulaca, &o. 
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Ilf gariifultmiL 
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1895. 
EAELY FORCED VINES. 
■ ■■ •<>• 
T he modern system of growing thick-skinned 
Grapes for keeping till May or June has 
rendered the practice of forcing Tines very 
early almost obsolete, there being few places in 
which they are started before the new year to 
afford ripe Grapes by the close of May or early 
in June. This is a decided advantage so far 
as the very early forcing of permanent Vines 
is concerned. Canes making their growth at 
the dullest period of the year, as must be the 
case with those started in November to ripen 
their crops in April or even in May, severely 
taxes the energies of the Vines, especially after 
a few seasons. 
This may not happen until they have done 
good service, but it does occur too soon for the 
profitable production of very early Grapes from 
planted-out Vines, therefore the potted system 
is resorted to. Of course, there is nothing new 
in growing Vines in pots to afford ripe Grapes 
in April, for it is mentioned by Abercrombie 
over a century ago, also the forcing of Peaches 
and other fruit trees in pots, and was carried 
on successfully by the aid of fermenting mate¬ 
rial, and fire heat on the flue system of heating. 
Hot-water heating is, however, most in touch 
with present requirements, and readily answers 
every purpose. 
The originator of the very early system of 
forcing young Vines in shallow and narrow beds 
may be untraceable, but it is not by any means 
a new method as regards permanent planted 
Vines, having been practised on the Continent 
for centuries by means of fermenting material, 
and in this country in some places by those 
means and auxiliary aid from fire heat. This, 
however, is not the point, for Vines will grow 
almost anywhere where there is a SHfficiency of 
heat, and often much better with scanty fare 
than high living. The question is that of 
growing in pots for affording ripe fruit in late 
March or early in April as compared with those 
planted out in shallow and narrow beds, fruiting 
them once and then throwing away. 
This is the greatest drawback to the potted 
as to the annually planted system, as the rearing 
of the Vines requires two years, and then another 
for fruiting. Vine eyes rooted one year are not 
No. 2427 .--Voii. XCII., Old Series. 
