42 FRUITING GRAPE VINES IN POTS. 



young vines. Sometimes grapes can also be grown in 

 pots over the paths at the back of pine-stoves, and in 

 similar positions, where borders are not available for 

 vines to grow in. 



It is also a very suitable way for amateurs who may 

 have a small greenhouse near a town residence, where 

 a vine -border cannot be made. They can annually 

 purchase half-a-dozen fruiting vines, and train them up 

 the rafters of their greenhouse, where they will bear 

 fruit, and at the same time afford a grateful shade to 

 such plants as balsams, cockscombs, achimenes, &c. For 

 the encouragement of such I may mention that, at the 

 June Show of the Eoyal Horticultural Society of London 

 in 1864, a medical gentleman, in Mount Street, Gros- 

 FIG 7 venor Square, London, got a 



prize for black Hamburg grapes 

 grown on the roof of his resi- 

 dence in a small greenhouse. 



Vines in pots are frequently 

 grown for dinner-table decora- 

 tion; but I have seldom seen 

 them look natural and well, as 

 they are generally grown in large 

 pots, and coiled round stakes. 

 Fig. 7 is an illustration of the 

 way I have grown them in Dal- 

 keith gardens for table decora- 

 tion. 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 set of 



