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house, the Black Prince, Verdelho, Esperione, and Black 

 Cluster, are perhaps among the best. 



The kinds commonly grown against the open wall in 

 England are the Miller Burgundy, Esperione, White Mus- 

 cadine, White Sweetwater, Early Black, Grove End, and 

 Pitmaston White Cluster. In the North of England, and 

 in the south of Scotland, vines always require hot walls. 

 Against a hot wall, at Erskine House, on the Clyde, Black 

 Hamburgh grapes are every year produced equal in size and 

 flavor to those of the vinery or hot-house. In some gardens 

 an entire wall is dedicated to vines, but, in general, they oc- 

 cupy only the interstices between other trees. Mr. Williams, 

 of Pitmaston, trained a vine under the coping of a wall to the 

 extent of fifty feet, and bent down the shoots at intervals 

 to fill up the spaces between the fruit-trees, and he found 

 that the grapes were better the farther they were distant 

 from the main stem and root. The culture of grapes on a 

 wall does not differ materially from that practiced in a 

 moderately worked vinery; we shall therefore defer any 

 farther observations till we resume the subject in treating 

 of the forcing department. 



Mr. Mearns has, of late, recommended the culture of 

 grape-vines in flower-pots, by coiling the lower part of the 

 stems in the pots. When the plants can be subjected to a 

 pretty high temperature, with bottom heat, some fine 

 bunches may thus be procured from a very small stove, 

 without materially interfering with ornamental exotics 

 kept in the same place. 



These are the varieties of grapes which are considered 

 most deserving of attention in England, where the culture 

 of the vine is limited to the sheltered garden, and generally 

 to the Grape-House or Vinery. Such, however, is the 

 success with which skill can obviate the defects of natural 



