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strong wires are run at right angles with each other, 

 to which the branches of the vine are tied, as shown. 

 The small pot gets filled with roots by the time the 

 grapes are ripe, when it may be detached from the 

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

 where the tree-like plant with fine pendulous bunches 

 of grapes looks all that can be desired. I have had one 

 of these vines fourteen days in the fruit-room, with 

 nothing to support it but a small pot, without a flagged 

 leaf, and the bunches as plump as when detached from 

 the original roots in the large pot. 



For growing for table in pots the black Hamburg is 

 by far the best. The vine is a sure bearer, has fine 

 shapely foliage, and the fruit, being dark, contrasts 

 beautifully with it. 



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For a person who has one vinery only, and who does 

 not mean to force early, the following twelve vines will 

 be found suitable, and, with ordinary good manage- 

 ment, will give grapes for six months from the 1st of 



August : 



3 Black Hamburg. 



1 Royal Muscadine. 



1 Duchess of Buccleuch. 



1 Eaisin de Calabrica. 



1 Black Prince. 



1 West's St Peter's. 



3 Lady Downes Seedling. 



1 Burchardt's Prince. 



For early forcing the following twelve are suit- 

 able : 



