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be prepared to vegetate again till late in the spring. 

 This experiment will probably succeed well with those 

 varieties of the vine only which produce blossoms 

 somewhat freely, and are of hardy habits ; but abun- 

 dant crops of fruit of these may be obtained at any 

 period of the winter or spring by proper previous 

 arrangement of the plants, and by the application of 

 a higher or lower degree of temperature. {Knight's 

 Papers, 288.) 



Size of Pots. — The smaller the pot, consistent with 

 healthful vegetation, the better, not only because less 

 room is thus occupied, but because the smaller deve- 

 lopment of root required, the earlier will be the pro- 

 duction of ripe fruit. In using bushel pots or tubs 

 there is no doubt that Mr. Burns used a size need- 

 lessly large, and we have no doubt that the largest 

 size required are those nine inches in diameter by nine 

 inches deep. We know this from having seen it suc- 

 cessfully practised, and vines grown in them bearing 

 five noble bunches, commencing from within eight 

 inches of the soil. Our opinion is further sustained 

 by the authority of the late Mr. Knight, who has 

 stated that — 



A pot containing a quantity of mould, equal to a 

 cube of 14 inches has been found large enough for a 

 vine whose foliage occupied a space of 20 square feet ; 

 water holding manure in solution being abundantly 

 given. And Mr. Knight states, he saw grapes ac- 



