Culture of the Grape Vine in Pots. 



The art of growing and fruiting the grape vine in 

 pots, forms one of the most interesting, elegant, and 

 profitable branches of modern horticulture. When well 

 understood, the culture of the vine in this way will be 

 found to be as simple and as easy as in the border, and 

 even better suited to the circumstances and wants of 

 numerous amateurs and gardeners. 



Anybody who has a small forcing-house, may produce 

 the best foreign grapes in pots in perfection, without 

 the costly preparations of the vinery, and with very lit- 

 tle trouble. If the grape, when fruited, is an elegant 

 object in the vinery, it is much more so in the pot ; and 

 when managed with skill, the mass of splendid fruit 

 which a single cane less than three feet in height is 

 capable of producing, cannot fail to excite the admira- 

 tion of every beholder. 



A great many persons who have small green-houses, 

 would like to raise grapes. To such, pot-culture offers 

 peculiar advantages. The work of growing the vines 

 can be easily and cheaply done by themselves or their 

 gardeners, and the plants got ready in any number, (as 



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