On the Cultivation of the Grape in Pots. 371 



Art, III. Remarks on the Cultivation of the Grape in 

 Pots. A page from my Note Book^ for the Magazine 

 of Horticulture, (Sf'c. By R. Buist, Philadelphia. 



Much has been said and written on the culture of grape 

 vines in pots. Many systems have been adopted and va- 

 rious soils recommended, for the purpose of bringing the 

 fruit to perfection. Some growers have been partially suc- 

 cessful, while others have entirely failed. 



Grape culture under glass, in the vicinity of Philadel- 

 phia, has within these few years made amazing progress. 

 Many graperies have been erected, and are producing heavy 

 crops of fruit. There are about fifty sorts cultivated, sev- 

 eral proving entirely worthless, while- others are of very 

 superior character. In the hands of some cultivators it is 

 astonishing to see how soon the merits of the grape are 

 proved. 



A. W. Mitchell, Esq. erected on his country place, about 

 six miles north of this city, a grapery, about eighty or 

 ninety feet long, in the autumn of 1842 and winter of 1843. 

 He planted it with vines of one and two years old, on 

 which he has this season seven hundred fine bunches of 

 fruit, which is certainly doing well in so short a period; 

 but the following, if not in advance of the age, is equal to 

 any record of grape growing. 



A plant of the Black Prince, growing in a pot from an 

 eye planted in March, 1843, has now on it five bunches of 

 fruit, which will weigh about seven pounds, the plant be- 

 ing only eighteen months old, and in a pot about fourteen 

 inches in diameter. A Black Hamhurgh, of the same age 

 and under the same culture, has the astonishing number of 

 elev^en bunches, that will average one pound each — one 

 bunch is nine inches long and sixteen in circumference. 



There are many others in pots almost equal to these. A 

 Chasselas, three and a half years old, had seven bunches 

 last year, and was then pronounced by some to be killed 

 with overbearing; but it has eighteen this season, fifteen 

 of them large and handsomely formed. A two-year old 

 vine of the Victoria Hamburgh, in the ground, has nine 

 beautiful bunches of fruit upon it, one of which is ten 



