PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
AUGUST, 1836, 
HORTICULTURE. 
ON THE COILING OF VINES. 
Welbeck Gardens , 2nd July, 1836. 
Sir,—I am certainly much astonished at the scepticism of many 
otherwise eminent practical gardeners, respecting the opinions they 
entertain of the merits of the coiling system for the purpose of propa¬ 
gating the grape vine. 
I beg to state to &tXo<jO(po£, that he appears to be but little acquainted 
with the physiology of the vine, when he would maintain that I am in 
error when I cut off all buds upon that part of my coil intended to be 
beneath the soil. If he retains those buds, which it seems he con¬ 
siders rather important to do so than otherwise, he will find that 
he will do but little good with his coil either the first or second 
season. 
I beg to inform him that “ buds are ” (certainly not ) “the origin of 
roots.” A vine-cutting coiled into a pot, after being denuded of every 
bud or excrescence likely to throw up a sucker, will produce as fine 
vigorous roots the jirst season, as if every bud had been present. I 
have proved it by variously-repeated experiments on the vine, and 
likewise upon blind tubers of the dahlia. 
I should be most happy for d>dWo^>oc to honour me with a call, and 
I flatter myself that he will then judge differently of the importance of 
the coiling system of the grape vine. 
Rootless branches, coiled into pots the 19th of last February, have 
at this time vigorous bunches of grapes upon them ; and although of 
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