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longiflora, measuring 2^ feet high, and as much through, covered with 

 bloom from the beginning of May to the end of September, and many of 

 the flowers measured 3 inches in diameter. — {Id., 1849, p. 389.) 



Vines in Pots. — In the Journal of the 9th inst., you requested informa- 

 tion on this branch of gardening. Whether there is any thing new or 

 worthy of the attention of your readers, in the plan I am about to detail, I 

 leave you to determine ; I never saw it practised until tried by myself. 

 There is not so much trouble attending it as in growing vines from eyes, 

 especially where the forcing departments are small. At the winter pruning 

 of the out door vines, (Royal Muscadine and Winter Frontignan,) I leave 

 several young canes which spring from the lower part of the vine, and 

 which are purposely retained at the previous summer dressing ; these should 

 be strong and well ripened shoots in April or May. I lay them in 11-inch 

 pots, plunged level with the surrounding soil, and as close to the wall as 

 convenient, and filled with good rich loam and deer dung in a rough state. 

 1 leave two eyes above the soil, and, as they both break, I rub off the weak- 

 est shoot, tying the one left to a stake, close to the wall. When they have 

 reached the height of three or four feet, I begin making small incisions be- 

 tween the pot and the parent stem, which I repeat at intervals, as I find 

 the vines are making roots, till they are finally severed from the parent about 

 the end of July, or when the pots are getting full of roots. Watering with 

 clear liquid manure must be attended to from the time growth commences, 

 as keeping them moist accelerates their striking root. When they have 

 made wood eight or ten feet long, they are kept stopped in, and when the 

 first symptoms of maturity show themselves — which it will do about the 

 end of August — they are taken up, carefully, lest the roots are injured, and 

 potted in as large pots as may be convenient, the larger the better, using 

 the compost already named. They are then placed in a south-east aspect, 

 and kept rather dryer, which will, by degrees, bring them to a state of rest; 

 whilst the roots will be laying hold of the new soil. As soon as the au- 

 tumn rains set in, they are pruned to the length of five feet, and removed 

 to an open shed where they are kept dry, till carried into the forcing house, 

 where the treatment is in every way the same as for vines produced from 

 eyes, which I need not recapitulate. — [Gard. Journal, 1849, p. 387.) 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



The Elton and Black Eagle Cherries. — The drought is making sad 

 work with our fruit, more than decimating what escaped the blast. I refer 

 particularly to pears, plums, and peaches. We have had a very heavy 

 crop of cherries, and they have been very fine — the Elton, most delicious ; 

 the Black Eagle takes the lead of the black cherries, but I fear it will be 

 an indifferent bearer, contrasting strongly in this respect with the Florence, 

 which, on my trees, bears in such masses, that they nearly all rot before 

 they are ripe enough to gather. — Thy Friend, J. M. Earle, Worcester, 

 July, 1849. 



