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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 3] [1917 
XII.—THE COLLECTION OF VINES (VITIS, ETC.) 
AT KEW. 
(With Plate.) 
The pir tone ie hardy species and varieties of Vitis and allied 
genera at Kew rown on a pergola running N.N.E. from near 
avenue of Robinias and Gleditschias, This was erected and the 
vines planted in the autumn of 1912 (see K. B. 1913, p. 51). For 
some forty years previously the collection had been grown on a 
curving line of iron posts between the North Gallery and the 
Maple collection. The posts were so short that the plants had 
to te treated as bushes rather than climbers. They stood their 
removal to new quarters very well, and few were lost. As oa 
be judged from the accompanying illustration, they hav 
succeeded me uaa and in four seasons have almost dota 
bare supports 
rden ornaments this group of Sgn have no flower 
banat to recommend them, nor, in our climate, can we expect 
them to bear and ripen fruit to any pie extent in the open 
ground. Their value lies in the noble proportions or handsome 
cutting of their foliage, their vigour of growth, but above all 
in the richness of the autumnal colourin 
Since the publication of the Genera Plantarum in 1862 the 
vines at Kew have been labelled in accordance with Bentham 
and Hooker’s conception of Vitzs. These authors made it include, 
besides Vitis proper, Ampelopsis and aie The late Mr. 
Planchon published a valuable monograph of the Ss age = 
1887 (De Candolle’s Monographiae Phanerogamerum vol. v.), a 
neared pa there has been a disposition generally to adopt tis 
s to generic limitations in this family. ollowing his 
dinaifention the hardy or nearly hardy species in cultivation at 
Kew are, in the subjoined list, “gue ee the genera Vitis, 
Ampelopsis, Parthenocissus and ; 
(5012.) Wt. 152—699. 1,125. 8/17. J.T. &S., Ltd. G. 14. 
