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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 FINE BEST SUITED FOE POTS. 



Almost any kind of Grape may be grown in pots, but 

 the Black Prince, Black Hamburgh, Eoyal 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. 



