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then planted the young vines in time to make good 

 canes the same season, the supernumeraries of which 

 were fruited heavily the following season thus not 

 losing much by the renewal of borders. 



Vines in pots are also successfully dwarfed and 

 fruited in small pots on the Chinese system for the 

 purpose of dinner-table decoration, for which purpose 

 they are very interesting. Mr W. Thomson, who il- 

 lustrates this practice by an engraving in his ' Practical 

 Treatise,' describes this process : " When the vines are 

 placed in heat, a small pot is slipped over the rod, 

 and in this pot a neatly-made stake painted green is 

 placed, and the soil filled in round it. Through this 

 stake a strong set of wires are run at right angles with 

 each other, to which the branches of the vine are tied. 

 The small pot gets filled with roots by the time the 

 grapes are ripe, when it may be detached from the 

 large pot and set in a small vase on the table, when 

 the tree-like plant, with its fine pendulous bunches, 

 looks all that can be desired." 



The cultivation of grapes in pots differs in no 

 essential way from that of permanent vines, except 

 that they require constant watering, and feeding at 

 the root with mulchings and manure -water. They 

 should always, if possible, be plunged in a gentle 

 bottom-heat at least, till they are fairly started into 

 growth. 



INARCHING VINES. 



It is now a well-established fact, that some of the 

 more tender and much -esteemed varieties of grapes 

 succeed better when inarched or grafted on to others 

 of a more vigorous constitution, and the practice is 



