THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



MAY, 1848. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. On the Cultivation and Management of Graj)e 

 Vines in Pots. By Mr. W, Wright, Gardener to the Hon. 

 Mrs. RusHouT, near London. With Remarks ujion the 

 same. By the Editor. 



The cultivation of the grape we have ever deemed one of 

 the most important branches of gardening. In our climate, 

 the fine foreign varieties cannot be produced in any perfection 

 in the open air, and we have therefore improved every oppor- 

 tunity to give all the information which would lead to their 

 successful management under glass. The culture of this lus- 

 cious fruit is yearly spreading, and, although a certain degree 

 of skill, which can only be acquired by practice, is necessary 

 to raise them in the greatest perfection, yet they may be grown 

 with fair success by any cultivator of good judgment, who 

 will bring to his aid the information which may be obtained 

 from treatises upon the subject. It has been our object to 

 give all this intelligence in the several volumes of our Mag- 

 azine. 



In our first volume, (p. 37,) we gave an article upon the cul- 

 tivation of grapes in pots, from our own diary of their manage- 

 ment, by which we had produced more than twenty clusters 

 of beautiful Black Hamburgh grapes, weighing nearly ten 

 pounds, on one vine, not eighteen months from the cutting, 

 (Vol. I. p. 30,) and, since then, in addition to the several ex- 

 cellent articles by our correspondents, on the growth of the 

 vine in pots, we have transferred to our pages the experience 

 of many of the most successful English grape-growers. 



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