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much damage to the roots, fairly clown to the drain- 

 age or subsoil, and to fill these "pots" with the same 

 rubbly materials as the drains. After these things 

 are accomplished, it would be well to fork in a dress- 

 ing composed of lime rubbish, charcoal, coarse sand, 

 and bones, &c, on the surface, not going deeper than 

 G inches, unless there are no roots in the way. Fi- 

 nally the border may be coated over with 3 inches of 

 manure from the stable door, if to spare. This, how- 

 ever, should only lie from November until Midsum- 

 mer; it might then be removed and dug into the 

 celery beds, and an inch or two of old vegetable soili 

 or decayed linings, be substituted in its room. 



POT-CULTURE. 



Where there is no early vinery, the culture of grapes 

 in pots is a most valuable system, though, from the 

 facilities it offers to the gardener of making good de- 

 ficiencies apprehended at any time in his produce of 

 forced grapes, it is desirably practised in many esta- 

 blishments where both early and late vineries are 

 maintained. 



The first impulse given to fruiting vines in pots was 

 by a paper in the Horticultural Register for 1 H3 1 , 

 by Mr. G. Stafford, then gardener at Wiilersley Cas- 

 tle, in Derbyshire, and which at the time elicited 

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