ON COILING SHOOTS OF VINES. 
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Thus planted, and with so little damage being done to the roots, they 
scarcely feel their removal, (further than is necessary to hasten their 
flowering,) but commence growing, and soon reach the top of the sticks, 
which need not be more than about fifteen inches high, as early dwarf 
peas treated in this manner seldom rise higher. They will begin to 
show flower about the middle of April, and pods will be full about the 
first week of May, in ordinary seasons. 
When wall-trees have any kind of covering for the protection of the 
flowers, if it also be made to project over the peas, it assists very mucli to 
expedite their early fruitfulness, and which, together with early sowing, 
moderate growth through the winter, their close union and confinement 
in the pots, and at last the slight check received when planted out, all 
combine to forward flowering. 
Peas raised in pots, as above described, may also be planted in drills 
on open borders or quarters of the garden, care being afterwards taken 
that they be instantly sticked, and otherwise protected from being 
injured by wind. The very act of transplantation favours early fruit¬ 
fulness, and is particularly evident, not only in respect of the pea, but 
also of the common bean, as well as of the different sorts of kidney- 
beans. 
COILING SHOOTS OF VINES. 
This subject has been frequently before noticed in this Register, as 
well by Mr. Mearns, of Welbeck, the originator of the practice, as by 
Mr. Paxton and others. 
It seems that the idea has been embraced by some of Mr. Mearns’ 
brethren, and their masters, with much more confidence and trust in its 
efficacy than ever was intended it should have been by the inventor 
himself. 
The idea is at least plausible; Mr. Mearns being well acquainted with 
the powers of the grape vine, and having often occasion to prune out 
fine, healthy, and well-ripened shoots, and which he knew, if left on 
the tree, would have produced much fruit, it was quite natural for him 
to have a wish to graft these shoots upon another root, or place them 
where they could form new roots for themselves. But he knew also 
that, whether grafted on a stock, or struck as a cutting, there would 
not be such a connexion in the one case, nor roots enough produced in 
the other, as would supply nourishment enough to so long a shoot, to 
enable it to yield even a single bunch. Mr. Mearns knew also that 
every part of the shoots, throughout their whole length, would, if laid 
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