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XVIII. An Account of a Method of obtaining very early 

 Crops of the Grape and Fig. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. President. 



Read March 1st, 1825. 



Mb . Arkwright* has proved that Vines, of which the 

 wood and fruit have ripened late in one season, will vegetate 

 late in the following season, under any given degree of tem- 

 perature ; and I have shewn the converse of this proposition 

 to be equally true ;+ the plants under each different mode of 

 treatment requiring a period of rest, during which they regain 

 their expended excitability. The following statements will 

 shew, that Mr. Arkwright and myself have met at the same 

 point, like navigators who have continued to proceed east 

 and west in diametrically opposite courses, the one with an 

 apparent loss and the other with an apparent gain of time. 



A Verdelho Vine, growing in a pot, was placed in the 

 stove early in the spring of 1823, where its wood became per- 

 fectly mature in August. It was then taken from the stove, 

 and placed under a north wall, where it remained till the 

 end of November, when it was replaced in the stove ; and it 

 ripened its fruit early in the following spring. In May it 

 was again transferred to a north wall, where it remained in a 



* Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iii. page 95- 

 f Ibid. Vol. ii. page 368. 



