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Art. til On the Cultivation and Treatment of the Grape 

 Vine in the Greenlwuse or Conservatory^ with a Diary of the 

 Progress of the Vincs^ Temperature, t^*c. By the Editor. 



From the first pubhcation of our Magazine, we have devot- 

 ed many pages to the cnhivation of the grape vine under 

 glass, and a great number of articles will be found in our sev- 

 eral volumes by various correspondents, both amateur and 

 professional cultivators. The management of the vine in 

 pots was fully detailed by ourselves in our first volume, (p. 37), 

 in the Greenhouse and Grapery, in some able papers in the 

 same volume, by Mr. Russell, (pp. 48, 94, &€.), in the Grapery, 

 by Mr. O. Johnson, (VIII. p. 201), and in the Cold-house, in 

 a very valuable article, (XII. p. 384), by Mr. Russell. We 

 now have to add our own experience on its treatment in the 

 Greenhouse exclusively, where a valuable collection of plants 

 is cultivated ; and, at a future time, we hope also to give an ar- 

 ticle on its management in the early vinery, which will make 

 our Magazine a complete treatise on the growth of this deli- 

 cious fruit. 



Our information on the cultivation of the vine has been, in 

 a great degree, gathered from the experience of English Cul- 

 tivators, and, without making any allowance for variation of 

 latitude, clmate, &c., we have followed them so strictly that 

 an impression has been formed that the grape could not be 

 grown in the greenhouse without great injury to the plants ; 

 or, in other words, that either the vines or the plants must 

 sufljer, whichever the cultivator may deem of the least im- 

 portance. Now in the cool, cloudy, and rainy climate of 

 England, where every gleam of sunshine, especially in win- 

 ter, is necessary to the health and vigor of both plants and 

 fruits when grown under glass, it is important that there 

 should be no obstruction to its free penetration to every part 

 of the house ; but, under our burning sun, where, often for 

 weeks in succession, there is scarcely a cloud to obstruct its 

 rays, it is absolutely necessary to the well being of most kinds 

 of plants that there should be some shade. If this is not 

 to be obtained by vines on the rafters, it must be had by whi- 

 tening the under surface of the glass, or by fitting up curtains, 

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