458 Plan for Forcing Grapes in Borders under Glass. 



my pits three cuttings and one plant. The cuttings were the 

 Chasselas and the Black Hamburgh ; the plant, that sort 

 generally cultivated in pots, and called by gardeners the 

 Pot Grape. The whole were planted in the month of March, 

 1825. The cuttings were taken from the parent Vines the pre- 

 ceding January. The plant had not succeeded well in the pot, 

 and had made previously but one little weakly sh oot, not larger 

 than a straw-mote ; and this shoot had, during the winter, been 

 cut back to about two inches in length. The cuttings imme- 

 diately struck root, and in the course of the season, made the 

 most vigorous shoots, of about eighteen feet in length. The 

 plant made equally vigorous shoots, of almost double th at 

 length. All the shoots were headed back in the winter to about 

 seven feet. This spring the eyes broke most regularly, and 

 made, and are still making, the most vigorous shoots, many of 

 them supporting three bunches. On the plant there are 

 seventy-three bunches; on the three cuttings sixty-one 

 bunches; many of a large size, and all of a most healthy 

 appearance, and likely to ripen. 



It was not in my power to attempt an accelerated growth of 

 the shoots this season, having made the experiment in a part 

 only of a large house, forty feet long, in which other Grapes are 

 cultivated in the usual way. This experiment therefore goes 

 only to establish the fact, that, by the plan, the vine may be 

 brought into a more immediate bearing state, without waiting 

 three or four years for filling a new house with wood, as is 

 usually the case. It proves also that the supply of sap is 

 greater, since all the eyes of branches seven feet long have 

 broken with unusual luxuriance and vigour. 



