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fruit is ripe. Then the roots will get through the 
bottom of the pot and feed the vine from the bed. | 
VARIETIES OF THE VINE BEST SUITED FOR POTS. 
Almost any kind of Grape may be grown in pots, but 
the Black Prince, Black Hamburgh, Royal Muscadine, 
Chaptal, the Frontignans, Fontainebleau, and the Sweet- 
water, are all excellent sorts for ordinary pot-culture. 
These may be had in good strong fruiting canes in pots 
at 3s. 6d. to 5s. each, and if the wood is well ripened 
in the autumn they may be pruned at once, carefully 
shifted, ball entire, into ten or eleven-inch pots and put 
into the house in the beginning of December, according 
to the time when the fruit is wanted. 
There is a particular advantage attached to the 
growing of Grapes in pots beyond any other way, viz. 
that a house can be partly or wholly filled with such 
vines, which may be increased in number in succession. 
Some may also be forced very early, and others intro- 
duced very late, to give a succession of fresh ripened 
Grapes, which, in my opinion, are far better than those 
thick-skinned imported ones which possess a covering 
like thin leather, and have but a poor quantity of juice 
and that of a very indifferent quality. 
Let anyone with a keen palate test the difference 
between a nicely ripened bunch of fresh Grapes just 
come to maturity, and one of the same sort which has 
been hanging for two or three months after the fruit 
has ripened, and I venture to say that the preference 
will be given to the more recently ripened. 
