16 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



great additional expense; large crops of early grapes 

 (and late ones too,) may be obtained where none could 

 otherwise be grown ; and the return, for the space occu- 

 pied and care required, in pecuniary profit and personal 

 gratification, will be found highly satisfactory. 



Growing foreign grapes in hothouses is generally 

 considered a sort of rich man's luxury. The pot vine 

 may, on the contrary, be called the poor man's luxury. 

 The grape in borders is generally grown on a man's own 

 estate. The pot vine may be called the tenant's grape. 

 In pots, the grape may be grown in any sort of hot- 

 house, even in a three-light box, by the tenant of the 

 humblest cottage ; and when he is suddenly called upon, 

 by any circumstance, to remove, he may take his vine 

 with him, at any season of the year, and continue its 

 culture at his pleasure. 



There are many persons who have much taste for hor- 

 ticultural pursuits, and for the culture of grapes in par- 

 ticular, not restricted in means, who yet do not find it 

 desirable to erect permanent graperies. To such, as 

 well as to the really poor man, the pot vine is a most 

 desirable acquisition. In city yards, where a green- 

 house only ten feet square can be erected, there the 

 grape may be grown and fruited in pots as perfectly as 

 in the most costly and extensive structures. 



With these advantages of pot vine culture before us, 

 we think we may safely say, that when the art of grow- 

 ing and fruiting the grape in this way becomes fully 

 and generally known, it will be exceedingly popular. 



