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catering them in dry weather ; when in about 

 a year they may be taken off and planted out in 

 the same manner as the cuttings. 



The second sort may likewise he increased by 

 cuttings, which should be planted in pots, 

 plunged in a moderate hot-bed, covering them 

 with glasses ; when well rooted they may be 

 taken up, and be planted in separate small pots 

 lilled with light earth, placing them in the shade 

 till iVcsli rooted, afterwards placing them in a 

 sheltered situation, with other green-house 

 plants, until the autumn, when they must have 

 protection from frost, and have very little 

 water. They are late in putting out leaves in 

 ■the spring, so as almost to appear dead. 



The third sort is raised from cuttings, which 

 should be planted in pots in the early spring, as 

 April, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed, 

 covering them with hand-glasses, being slightly 

 watered ; when they have taken root, they 

 should have free air admitted in a gradual man- 

 ner; then they may be taken up and planted 

 out in separate pots filled with light earth, re- 

 plunging them in the bed, and givingdue shade. 

 Thc)-^ should afterwards have plenty of free air 

 when the weather is suitable, being treated as 

 .tender plants. It must be constantly kept in 

 the stove, having free air in the summer season. 

 It retains its leaves all the year. This may also 

 be raised from layers. 



The fourth sort may also be raised from cut- 

 tings, in the same manner as the second. 



The first sorts may be introduced in the 

 shrubberies, clumps, Sec., and the latter kinds 

 afford variety in stove and green-house collec- 

 tions. 



VITIS, a genus containing plants of the de- 

 ciduous climbing kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandna 

 M-onogijnia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Hedeiacece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five- 

 toothed perianth, very small: the corolla, petals 

 five, rude, small, caducous : the stamina have 

 five aivl-shaped filaments, from erect spreading, 

 caducous : anthers simple : the pistillum is an 

 ovate germ: style none: stigma obtuse-headed: 

 the pericarpium is a globular or ovate berry, 

 two-celled : the seeds two, bony, turbinate- 

 cordate, contracted at the base, seniibilocular. 



The species cultivated are: 1. V. vinifera, 

 Common Vine ; 2. V. Indicu, Indian Vine ; 

 3. V. lacluiosa. Parsley-leaved Vine; 4. F. 

 arhorea. Pepper Vine. 



The first is universally known to have a thick 

 twisted irregular weak stem, covered with a 

 brown cloven bark, and having very long tough 

 ficxible branches, trailing along the ground, or 



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climbing trees by means of tendrils : the leaves 

 are lobed and sinuated, serrate, smooth and al- 

 ternate, on long foot-stalks : the tendrils are 

 opposite to a leaf, and are attended by the flowers 

 in a raceme : the flowers are whitish or herba- 

 ceous, very small and insigniiieaut in appear- 

 ance, but having a very agreable smell : the 

 petals cohering at the tip and conceahng the 

 genitals in manner of a veil, but soon fall off: 

 the berrv globular, in some varieties ovate, he- 

 fore it is ripe regularly divided into five cells, 

 but afterwards one-celled, almost pellucid, 

 coloured in some, colourless in others. It is a 

 native of most of the teniperate parts of the 

 world. In very cold regions it refuses to grow, 

 and within 95" or even 30" of the equinoctial line, 

 it seldom flourishes so as to produce good fruit. 

 In the northern hemisphere, the proper wine 

 couiUry is from 25" to 51° of latitude. 



According to Forsyth, the following are the 

 varieties which are in most esteem in this cli- 

 mate, for the hot-house, vinery, and the natural 

 wall. 



SORTS PROPER FOR THE HOT-HOUSE. 



The White Muscat of Alexandria, or Alex- 

 andrian Frontinac, in which the berries are 

 oval, and the bunches long. It has a rich vi- 

 nous juice, and is esteemed an exceeding good 

 grape for the hot-house. 



The Red Muscat of Alexandria, which re- 

 sembles the former, only the berries are of a red 

 colour. 



The Black Muscadel, which has large oval 

 berries of a black colour and pleasant juice. 



The Red Muscadel, which has \^arge red ber- 

 ries of an oval shape, and ripens late; the 

 bunches are very large. 



The Black Damascus, which has large, round, 

 black-coloured berries; the flesh is rich and 

 well flavoured. It is an excellent late grape. 



The Black Grape from Tripoli, which has 

 laroe black berries, and is an excellent grape. 



the White Hamburgh, which has large oval- 

 shaped berries, and is a pretty good bearer. 



The Red Grape, from Syracuse, which is a 

 very fine large grape. 



Le Coeur Grape, or Morocco Grape, which 

 has berries of a tawny colour, and is highly 

 esteemed. 



The Golden Galician Grape, which has large 

 oval berries of a yellow colour, and tolerable 

 flavour. 



The Black Raisin Grape, which has large 

 black berries of an oval form ; the skin is thick, 

 and the flesh firm. 



The White Raisin Grape, which resembles 

 the preceding ; only that the berries are white. 



The Malvoise, 'sometimes called the Blue 

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