GHAPTER VIITf. 
POT CULTURE. 
Tue growing and fruiting of the grape-vine in pots of 
tubs is, in some parts of Europe, very much practised at 
the present day, and some of our best practical men in this 
country are in favor of its being more generally adopted. 
As this mode requires the most vigilant care, we must 
consider the annual amount of labor incurred in watering, 
potting, and other attention which is required, besides the 
expense of pots or tubs in which to grow the plants, and 
also the continual raising of fresh stock. On the other, or 
eredit side, there is the difference with regard to accom- 
modation and conveniences ; pot culture takes up no 
outside the house ; the expense of outer borders, covering, 
&c., is avoided ; but there is a yearly item im pre 
compost which hd amounts to about the sum that top- 
dressings woul uire—a manure-water tank, or cistern, 
is bealataly necessary to supply the vines with nourish- 
ment, while growing freely; but this is a thing that ought 
to be on every place that pretends to good gardening. As 
to house-room, what will produce a given quantity of fruit 
by the usnal mode, will de the same in pot culture; and 
all things considered, if sufficient care and attention can 
be relied on at all times, the latter mode has the prefer 
ence; still it ought to be borne in mind, that without all 
this, a poor sample of watery fruit will be the only reward, 
while with it, fine _ quality, can be realized 
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