440 Upon the Managing of Fruit-trees in Pots. 



moved from the stove : and on the 12th of January I found 

 the buds so much swollen, that I feared the exposure to frost 

 would prove fatal to them ; and the pots were consequently 

 removed to the stove. In this, the sudden increase of tem- 

 perature occasioned every visible bud to unfold itself within 

 a very few days ; and on the 17th of the following month, 

 being thirty-six days after the pots were brought into the 

 stove, the berries of some bunches of the Verdelho Grape 

 were so far grown, that I could have thinned them with 

 advantage. In the end of March the Chasseias Grapes 

 became soft and transparent, and in the middle of April 

 some bunches were as mature, and much more yellow, than 

 those of the same kind usually are when first brought to the 

 London market in the spring ; though the weather had been, 

 during the earlier part of the spring, dark and cloudy, and 

 consequently unfavourable. The wood of these Vines 

 appeared nearly mature in the end of the last month 

 (April) ; and by removing them from the stove for a short 

 time, to a cold and shaded situation, and subsequently re- 

 placing them in the stove, I do not doubt the practicability 

 of obtaining "another crop from them within the present 

 year. 



A pot which contains a quantity of mould equal to a cube 

 of fourteen inches, has been found large enough for a Vine 

 whose foliage occupied a space of twenty square feet ; water 

 holding manure in solution being abundantly given : and I 

 have seen Grapes acquire a larger size, and other fruits a 

 higher flavour under such management than under any 

 other. 



The supposed necessity of frequently removing Fruit-trees, 



