GRA PE VINES PROP A GA TION. 



FOR LARGEST BUNCHES. 

 Trebbiano. 

 White Nice. 

 Gros Guillaume. 

 Syrian. 



FOR EXHIBITION. 



Black varieties. 

 Black Hamburgh. 

 Madresfield Court. 

 Gros Maroc. 

 Alicante. 

 Gros Guillaume. 

 Gros Colman. 

 Alnwick Seedling. 



White varieties. 

 Duke of Buccleuch. 

 Buckland's Sweetwater. 



Foster's Seedling. 

 Muscat of Alexandria. 

 Canon Hall Muscat. 

 Trebbiano. 



FOR POT CULTURE IN UNHEATED 

 HOUSES. 



Black varieties . 

 Black Hamburgh. 

 Madresfield Court. 



White varieties. 

 Early Smyrna Frontignan. 

 Foster's Seedling. 



FOR POT CULTURE IN HEATED 



HOUSES. 



Black Muscat (Muscat Hamburgh). 

 Gros Maroc. 



Alicante. 

 Gros Colman. 

 Alnwick Seedling. 

 Lady Downe's. 



Muscat of Alexandria and Mrs. 

 Pearson may be grown with the pots 

 placed on hot- water pipes. 



FOR EARLY FORCING IN POTS. 

 Black varieties. 



Black Hamburgh. 

 Madreufield Court. 



White varieties. 

 White Frontignan. 

 Foster's Seedling. 



PROPAGATION. 



The grape vine is increased by seeds, layers, cuttings, and eyes ; also by inarching, 

 budding, and grafting. 



Seed. New varieties are raised from seed through the agency of cross-fertilisation. 

 To effect this it is essential to cut off the stamens from those flowers which are to 

 produce seeds before they have ripe pollen, and when the stigma becomes fit pollen 

 of the desired variety is applied to it with a small camel's-hair brush. To operate 

 successfully a bunch should be set apart in a good position on the seed-bearing parent, 

 cutting away all the flower buds beyond a dozen of the best before they expand, and 

 enclosing \ he bunch in a thin muslin bag till the berries are swelling. The manipulations 

 needed in cross-fertilisation will be found under " Setting." Choice of varieties for 

 crossing must be left to individual taste, as no correct idea can be formed of the result 

 of any cross, either as regards constitution or fruiting habit, form or size of berries, 

 or of the colour or quality of the fruit. 



The seeds should be taken from the berries when fully ripe, and either be sown at once 

 or kept in sand until spring. They are preferably sown singly in small pots, covering 

 them about | inch deep in fine free loamy soil. The seedlings will soon appear in gentle 

 heat. If several are raised in a pan they must be potted singly when they have two 

 cr three leaves, shaded for a few days until established, and then grown in all the light 

 possible, shifting into larger pots as they require more root room, but 6-inch pots 

 are sufficient to insure a strong plant, with plenty of fibrous roots for planting. 

 Seedlings do not fruit early and freely in pots, but they can be inarched on the 



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