158 CULTIVATION OP THE GRAPE UNDER GLASS. 



1 Chasselas Musque. 



1 Buckland Sweet Water. 



1 Golden Champion. 



For early forcing, the following will be the most desirable 

 aild suitable sorts : 

 3 Black Hamburgh. 

 3 Muscat Hamburgh 



2 Bowood Muscat. 



1 Grizzly Frontignan. 

 1 White Frontignan. 

 1 Chasselas Musque. 



FRUITING VINES IN POTS. 



It is sometimes desirable to ripen a few grapes in pots. It 

 can be done whde the permanent vines are becoming established 

 in their borders, preparatory to their first crop of fruit. They 

 are often wanted for dinner table decoration, — and what can give 

 the table a more charming appearance, in combination with 

 flowers, than a vine laden with its tempting purple clusters! 

 The following hints are intended to help those who are desirous 

 of making the experiment. 



It is of the first importance to obtain strong, healthy, well 

 ripened, one year old vines, that have been well grown in eight- 

 inch pots. These should be procured about the first of April. 

 As soon as they are received, the ball of earth containing the roots 

 should be well soaked with tepid water. They should then be 

 potted in eleven-inch pots, first carefully loosening and spreading 

 what root-fibres can be readily set free without breaking the ball 

 to pieces, yet reducing the size of it by removing the loose soil 

 at the top, and what may crumble oflf in liberating the ends of the 

 roots. Some soU. for potting them should have been provided 

 similar to that used for the borders. The hole at the bottom of 

 the pot should be covered with a potsherd, and the bottom fiUed, 

 to the depth of at least two inches, with broken fragments of 

 pots, or with small pieces of charcoal, or with half-inch ground 



