68 FRUIT GARDEN. 
house, the Black Prince, Verdelho, Hsperione, and Black 
Cluster, are perhaps among the best. 
The kinds commonly grown against the open wall in 
England are the Miller Burgundy, Esperione, White Mus- 
cadine, White Sweetwater, Early Black, Grove End, and 
Pitmaston White Cluster. Inthe North of England, and 
in the south of Scotland, vines always require hot walls. 
Against a hot wall, at Erskine’ House, on the Clyde, Black 
Hamburgh grapes'are every year produced equal in size and 
flavor to those of the vinery or hot-house. In some gardens 
an entire wall is dedicated to vines, but, in general, they oc- 
* eupy only the interstices between other trees. Mr. Williams, 
of Pitmaston, trained a vine under the coping of a wall to the 
extent of fifty feet, and bent down the shoots at intervals 
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 culture 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 department. es 
Mr. Mearns has, of late, recommended he culture of 
grape-vines in flower-pots, by coiling the lower part of the 
stems in the pots. "When the plants can be subjected to a 
pretty high temperature, with bottom heat, some fine 
bunches may thus be procured from a very small stove, 
without materially interfering with ornamental exotics 
kept in the same place. 
These are the varieties of grapes which are considered 
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 
