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laii-d, and in the south of Scotland, vines always re- 

 quire hot walls. Against a hot wall, at Erskine House, 

 on the Clyde, Black Hamburgh grapes are -every year 

 proddced equal in size and flavor to those of the viiiery 

 or hot-house. In some gardens, an entire wall is dedi- 

 cated to vines, but, in general, they occupy only the 

 interstices between other trees. Mr. Williams, of Pit- 

 maston, trained a vine under the coping of a wall to the 

 extent of fifty feet, and bent down the shoots at inter- 

 vals to fill up the spaces between the fruit-trees, and 

 he found that the grapes were better the farther, they 

 were distant from the main stem and root. The cul- 

 ture of grapes on a wall does not differ materially 

 from that practiced in' a moderately worked vinery ; 

 we shall therefore defer any farther observations till 

 we resume the subject in treating of the forcing depart- 

 ment. 



Mr. Mearns has, of late, recommended the culture of 

 grape-vines in flower-pots, by coiling the lower part of 

 the stems in the pots. When the plants can be sub- 

 jected to a pretty high temperature, with bottom-heat, 

 some fine bunches may thus be procured from a very 

 small stove, without materially interfering with orna- 

 mental exotics kept in the same place. 



These are the varieties of grapes which are consider- 

 ed most deserving of attention in England, where the 

 culture of the vine is limited to the sheltered garden,- 

 and generally to the Grape-House or Vinery. Such, 

 however, is the success with which skill can obviate the 

 defects" of natural climate, that fruit of larger size and 

 better flavor is produced in English graperies than can 

 • be found in even the most highly favored climates 

 where the fruit ripens in the open air. By the skillful 



