500 Pot Culture of the Grape. 



The best broccoli I am acquainted with, for a gentleman's 

 garden, is Knight's Protecting; the heads of which are com- 

 pact, clear white in colour, and of excellent flavour. Being 

 closely enveloped in the heart-leaves of the plant, the young 

 heads are protected from late spring-frosts, by which other 

 white varieties are often discoloured : it, however, is tender, the 

 last severe winter having destroyed nearly all my plants. Seeds 

 may be obtained from Messi's. Backhouse. 



At the North Riding Horticultural Society's meeting (July 

 28.), some Beans were exhibited, which were greatly superior 

 to any I ever saw. They were of a new sort, called New 

 Long-pod, originally obtained from a London seed shop (Field 

 and Child, I believe, is the name of the firm). The pods were 

 straight, and well formed, each containing from seven to ten 

 seeds. — Kiplin^ Sept. 1 7. 



Art. XI. Critical Remarks on the Pot Culture of the Grape Vine. 

 By William Grey, Gardener to Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. 



In my correspondence, in last November, with Mr. Mearns, 

 who was then gardener at Welbeck, he informed me that the 

 threery ears-old wood of the vine rooted more freely than wood 

 of any other age ; communicating, at the same time, several other 

 interesting remarks on the vine, which induced me to give the 

 pot culture of it another fair impartial trial, notwithstanding I 

 had written against and condemned the system. I have a range 

 of flued melon-pits here with four divisions : one of the divisions 

 I prepared with tan, or spent bark, for the reception of thirty 

 pots of coiled vines. In January last, I selected prunings; viz., 

 white muscadine. Miller's Burgundy, black cluster, and black 

 Hamburg ; and, agreeably to the hints given by Mr. Mearns, I 

 was careful of having the three-years-old wood coiled into the 

 pots ; the latter end of February being the time that the vines 

 I had the cuttings taken from had taken their rest, and W"ere 

 coming into action. I then plunged the pots into the pit pre- 

 viously prepared for them, in a mild, growing, bottom heat ; 

 taking the sashes off all the day, to keep the shoots above the 

 soil as cool as possible, in order to prevent the eyes from pushing 

 until the bottom heat had put the wood coiled in the pots in 

 action to push out roots and support the young shoots and 

 branches. All went on to my wish ; as I found, by the time the 

 eyes broke forth into leaves, there were fine vigorous roots in the 

 pots. I then kept the sashes on in the daytime, giving air the 

 same as in forcing-houses : several of them showed fruit, with from 

 four to eleven bunches upon one coiled shoot. The plants which 

 were not fruitful, I took out of the pot, to give more room and 

 hght to those in fruit, and to satisfy myself in the argument 



