This section is from the book "The Gardener V1", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
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Bowood and Tynninghame Muscats will do quite well at the warm end of your vinery. Next to the Duke of Buccleuch, Buckland's Sweetwater is the best early.
Grow your Lilium in three-parts maiden loam; top-spit from an old pasture, one part rotten cow-manure, and a sixth of the whole of sand. The same compost, with the addition of a little bone-meal, will suit for Pot-Vines.
 
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