A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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GR A 260 GRA
Nitre (carbonate of potash,
powdered) 1
The same composition spread upon
slips of linen makes Grafting Plaster,
frequently used by amateur budders.
G R A M M A N T H E S chloraflora.
Stove annual. Seeds. Loam and lime
rubbish.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM. Two species.
Stove orchids. Division. Wood.
GRANGERIA6or6oniV(J. Stove evergreen
tree. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
GRAPE-VINE (Vitis vinifera). Of
this fruit ninety-nine varieties are cultivated
in the Chiswick Garden.
Open-wall culture. — Varieties best
suited for this, according to the experience
of Mr. Hoare, are :
Black Hamburgh.
Black Prince.
Esperione.
Black Muscadine.
Miller's Burgundy.
Claret Grape.
Black Frontignan.
Grizzly Frontignan.
White Frontignan.
White Muscadine.
Malmsey Muscadine.
White Sweetwater.
Frontignan ; Grizzly Frontignan ; Black
Muscat; and Black Damascus.
" For Green-house. — Black Hamburgh
; Tripoli; Grove-end Sweetwater;
and Muscadine.
" For Latest House.—West's St. Peter's,
and Charlesworth's Tokay.
''For a Single House with fourteen
rafters.—One Purple Constantia; one
White Frontignan ; one Royal Muscadine,
or Chasselas D'Arboyce ; three
Muscats; three Black Hamburghs, or
Tripolis; three West's St. Peter's; and
two Black Princes.
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" For Pot-Culture, to cover in during
April and May.—Purple Constantia and
White Frontignan." United Gar. Jour.
Until recently but few houses for the
exclusive growth of grapes under glass,
had been erected in the United States.
The success which attended the effort
in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Boston,
and other cities, has excited emulation,
and at this day (1847) one of the most
attractive features of our Horticultural
exhibitions, are grapes grown under
glass, not exclusively through the agency
of fire-heat, but in many instances
by the aid of the glass alone.
Propagation.—Layering is the most
certain and most expeditious mode of
propagating the grape-vine. In the first
part of March cut away the fourth bud
of the shoot to be layered, pass the
shoot through the hole in the bottom of
garden-pot, fill this with light rich earth,
so that the wound of that fourth bud is
in the centre of the earth, and two buds
above its surface ; fix the pot firmly to
the wall, so as not to be disturbed ; keep
the earth constantly moist with liquid
manure, giving a little every day, and
a little moss tied over the surface and
round the sides of the pot to check
evaporation. Cut away the layer from
Eighty-six of the varieties have been the parent in the last week of August;
cultivated at Wilbeck within the last and, turning it out from the pot, with-
seven years, but only about fourteen out at all disturbing the earth, plant it
found of superior excellence, and many where it is to remain, and water it
of the others were mere synonymes. plentifully with liquid manure until the
Mr. Tiliery, from this long course of ex- leaves begin to fall.
perience and observation, recommends Cuttings.—At the time of autumn-
the following selections:
pruning select some middle-sized, well-
''For the Earliest House.—The Purripened shoots, cut off lengths of six
ple Constantia, or Frontignan ; White buds, keep them in moist sand through
Frontignan; Black Prince ; Dutch, or the winter, and, at the end of March,
Stillward's Sweetwater; Black Ham- cut them in half, remove the two lower
burgh ; and Tripoli.
buds, and plant them under a wall hav-
" For Stove. — White Muscat of ing an eastern aspect, leaving the upper
Alexandria; Purple Constantia ; White bud just above the surface, and covering
them with a hand-glass. The soil
must be light, rich, and well pulverized,
pressed close round the cuttings, and
kepi constantly moist with liquid manure
until the leaves fall in autumn. The
surface round them should be stirred
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at least twice a week to allow the air
unimpeded entrance.
Coiling is only a peculiar mode of
propagating by cuttings suggested by
Mr. Mearns, whose practice has been
epitomised thus by Dr. Lindley:
" In the propagation of vines by coil-
. ing, Mr. Mearns' practice, if single rods