THE 



AMERICAN 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. 



FEBRUARY, 1835. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Observations on the Cultivation and Management of tTie 

 Grape Vine in Pots. By the Conductors. 



During the last three or four years, the cuhivation of the vine in 

 pots has attracted considerable attention among the English horticul- 

 turists. Much has been written upon the subject, by some of their 

 best practical and scientific gardeners — various methods and experi- 

 ments pursued — different systems adopted — and repeated trials made, 

 to ascertain to what extent it can be followed with benefit and suc- 

 cess. Some have asserted that the practice will almost preclude the 

 necessity of the simpler and more common modes of growing the 

 vine in an estabhshed grapery. Others, that not much reliance can 

 be placed upon this plan of cultivation, for a good crop, and that, if 

 pursued, it will only end in disappointment. Some, again, have been 

 so sanguine of the superiority of pot culture, over all other methods, 

 that they have, with great zeal and enthusiasm, maintained that 

 grapes in greater abundance, and of richer flavor, can be produced 

 from vines thus treated, than from those established in the border. 

 Others have given much attention to this method, and have only 

 been enabled to raise a very few bunches — the grapes of small 

 size, inferior flavor, without color, and altogether unfit for the use of 

 the table. 



Whatever may have been the causes which have led to the above 

 results, (the success of one, and the disappointment of the other) we 

 are not enabled to say; but that such has been the effect of the 

 practice, we may infer from reading the communications which have 

 appeared in the English gardening magazines. As regards the ex- 

 tent to which the cultivation of the vine in pots may be carried, 

 and the great benefits which may result from pursuing the practice, 



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