PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
OCTOBER, 1835. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON COILING VINES. 
Welbeck Gardens, Olterton, 8th Sept., 1835. 
Sir, —By referring to the 490th page of this month’s number of the 
Gardener’s Magazine, you will there read facts respecting the early 
fruitfulness of grapes in pots upon the coiling system, and I much 
question whether the same success has ever been produced in any part 
of the world by any other method; or, if ever the coiling system has 
been practised, whether the same successful results have followed its 
adoption. The practice of layering the vines, as at Thumrey, in France, 
is to produce early vigour, and is a most excellent old practice in this 
country, and is followed by many of my horticultural friends upon first 
planting. By tongueing four or five of the joints onwards from the 
root, as a carnation layer is tongued, to induce a greater increase of 
vigorous roots, and consequently a proportional vigour to the top, is 
attended with advantage in giving a greater degree of vigour to the 
plants for the first year or two, but I have reason to question its bene¬ 
ficial influence after that period; its object has only been to induce 
early and abundant fruitfulness: mine has the same object in view, 
and a year or two is gained by the process. It is notorious that grapes 
have been produced by accident from a vine-cutting the first, season as 
well as from one the second, but these instances have been the effects of 
accident, as far as my range of inquiry has gone; but not so if judi¬ 
ciously conducted upon the coiling system ; and although there may be 
a nicety for the uninitiated in the pot culture of grapes to produce fruit 
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