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should be remembered, that the nearer colors are broiicrht together, 

 the more decided is their mutual effect. {Gard. Chron.) 



To obtain Grapes from Vines in Pots. — I have obtained grapes 

 from vines in f)ots tor the last two years by a simple method, which 

 is attended with less than half the labor and inconvenience of the 

 ordinary way of raising vines from eyes, or of coibng long rods, so 

 strongly recommended by Mr. Mearns. It was the coiling system 

 that first suggested the idea to me; I have repeatedly tried it, but 

 never could succeed sufficiently to repay me for the care that I had 

 bestowed upon it, and the raising of young plants from single eyes or 

 cuttings generally took two summers' growth to make them strong 

 enough to bear fruit: although a few of them that were placed on 

 heat, and in a favorable situation, would bring fruit after one sum- 

 mer, yet there was so much uncertainty in it that I could never in- 

 sure a crop of grapes, especially from jtlants of the black St. Peter's 

 and Hamburghs. The Muscadines, Frontignac, Sweetwaters, and 

 several other sorts, are sure bearers in pots, and by whatever meth- 

 od the plants may be raised, it does not seem to affect their fruit- 

 ing. The following is a certain way to insure a crop of grapes 

 of every sort in cultivation from plants in pots: — When the vines 

 that are let into the house have reached the top of the rafters, in- 

 stead of stopping the leading shoot, as is conmionly done, and often 

 too soon, which causes the eyes to burst and renders them useless for 

 the succeeding year, I turn the shoot back, and having ready a pot 

 of suitable size, well drained and filled with fresh turfy loam, and 

 rotted dung, of equal parts, I place it upon the back shelf or wall of 

 the pit, and as soon as the young shoot has attained a sufficient length 

 to be laid into the pot, I cut out two or three eyes, and as many of 

 its leaves, and scrape off a little of the bark the whole length of the 

 part intended for roots, which is bent into the pot, and covered with 

 mould to the dejjth of six or seven inches. No attention is required, 

 excepting to train the shoot as it advances in growth, and keep the 

 mould in the pot a little moist to encourage the emission of roots, 

 which will api)ear in a fortnight or three weeks, and soon fill the 

 pot. When the shoot is laid in the pot, 1 allow it to grow from four 

 to eight feet long, according to the strength of the parent vine, to 

 which I leave it attached till it is done growing and perfectly ripened 

 its wood. I do not always confine myself to the leading shoots for a 

 su[)ply of plants, but I prefer them to any other, as they always 

 bring the largest bunches. Should there not be a sufScient quantity 

 of leaders, I place pots under the rafters at most convenient situa- 

 tions, and likewise on the front flue; but the shoots that are laid in 

 these pots are never suffered to exceed five feet in length. When 

 my plants are severed from the ))arent vines, they are put out under 

 a wall, where they are protected from frost, and taken into the house 

 as required for forcing; at that time they are shifted into pots about 

 a foot over, and fourteen inches deep; in these they remain until the 

 fruit is cut, after which they are thrown away, as I am always sure 

 of a fresh supply of plants every year by the same process. {Gard. 

 Chronicle. ) 



Budding Roses. — Among the many methods for budding roses, I 

 have found none answer so well as the following, which I have 

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