304 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 

 BEARING GRAPE-VINES IX POTS. 



A horticulturist in Stuttgardt has devised an ingenious 

 method of rearing grape-vines in pots so as to obtain grapes 

 with very little trouble in a room or other sheltered place. 

 For this purpose a vigorous, healthy cutting of the late growth 

 of the wood is taken, from three to five feet in length, having 

 at the upper end two fruit-buds. The cutting is to be en- 

 tirely enveloped with moss, and bound with bast, but so as 

 to leave the extremity bearing the fruit-buds uncovered. The 

 cutting thus prepared is to be inserted spirally into a suffi- 

 ciently large flower-pot, leaving the fruit-buds projecting 

 above the edge of the pot, which is then to be filled with rich 

 hot-bed earth well moistened, and placed in the sun behind a 

 w T indow and kept uniformly moist. The water applied should 

 never be cold, but rather lukewarm, so as to stimulate to 

 the utmost the development of the young roots. When the 

 weather is such that there is no danger from night frosts, the 

 pot may be placed outside the window or against a sunny 

 wall, or even inserted in the ground in order to secure a more 

 uniform moisture and temperature. When the two fruit- 

 buds have produced branches, having bunches of grapes upon 

 them, these shoots are to be trimmed so that two sound leaves 

 remain over each grape-shoot, in order to keep up the cir- 

 culation of the sap, since without this the grapes would not 

 develop. A single leaf would be sufficient, but two are bet- 

 ter, for greater security. - An occasional watering with a liq- 

 uid manure is advisable in order to stimulate the growth of 

 the plant, although this must be applied with care, since an 

 excess will do more harm than good. In one instance a 

 grape-shoot treated in this way produced nine large bunches 

 of fine grapes, although such a number would be rather more 

 than could conveniently be supported by the plant. 8 (7, 

 July 28,1870,244. 



CHINESE METHOD OF PRESERVING GRAPES. 



Travelers inform us that the Chinese have a method of 

 preserving grapes so as to have them at their command dur- 

 ing the entire year, and a recent author gives us the follow- 

 ing account of the method adopted. It consists in cutting a 

 circular piece out of a ripe pumpkin or gourd, making an 



