14 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



in pots on the 1st of October, will keep on the vines, in 

 a cool, dry, airy room, till the 1st of February or March. 



As an ornament to the dinner table, or for decorating 

 a room for evening parties, there is no production of 

 the hot-house more truly magnificent in all respects, 

 than a pot vine fully and properly developed, bearing 

 six or seven bunches of the finest grapes, as they may 

 be grown by proper dwarf culture, such as we shall de- 

 scribe in this work. 



The early fruiting of dwarf pot vines is another ad- 

 vantage greatly in their favor, as compared with com- 

 mon vines. Vines are so easily produced in pots, that 

 it is a matter of little consideration if you fruit them 

 early, at the expense of the existence of the vine, while 

 in the border you would be more careful to create a 

 strong cane before permitting it to fruit. Vines may 

 be struck from the eye, and forced into perfect and 

 abundant fruiting in eighteen months. You may strike 

 vines from the eye in March, and fruit them in pots 

 the second season, moderately, without serious injury to 

 them. 



Properly and moderately fruited, the pot vine is not 

 destroyed, as many pcrsofis suppose, in one or two sea- 

 sons, but may be shifted from small to larger pots, 

 root-pruned, and again placed in smaller pots, for years, 

 the proper nutriment for growing wood and perfecting 

 fruit being added to the soil at each change of pots, 

 and given in solution while bearing. A much greater 

 variety of grapes may be grown together in pots in the 



