PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
NOVEMBER, 1835. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON COILING VINES. 
Wdbeck Gardens, Olterton, 10 th Sept., 1835. 
Sir, —It may be necessary that the following remarks be incorporated, 
in their proper place, where you may think fit, in the paper which I 
lately forwarded to you upon the subject of vine culture, by coiling the 
cutting into pots, according to its strength. 
The soil which I make use of for my vine in pots is about two inches 
thick of the turfy sod from a fine sheep-walk or pasture-field. I use 
that mostly from the top of a limestone rock, with a mixture of some 
of a much sandier nature; but I like all chopped up green, and used 
as fresh for my coders, both at first planting and future shiftings. I 
wish to state this lest much of my success may depend upon the sort of 
soil I use, and that it may be the cause of the want of success in others 
that a similar compost is not employed. It is the soil that I use gene¬ 
rally for all my border vine and wall trees, when they require renova¬ 
tion ; and, in many situations, a renovation of the kind would be very 
advantageously applied every second or third season. 
I place all my coders directly into a strong bottom-heat of from 
ninety to one hundred degrees, whilst the atmosphere of the house or 
pit has a temperature of from sixty to seventy degrees at night, and 
from seventy to eighty degrees in the day, during the time they stand 
in need of any bottom-heat higher than the temperature of the house 
they stand in, and to attend to keep them as near to the light and air 
as can possibly be done ; and however powerful the light may fall upon 
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