FRUITING CtRAPE VINES IN POTS. 



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this way have a partial crop of grapes in his house the 

 first season. Or when a gardener has to root out and 

 renew a vinery, and at the same time supply grapes, he 

 can have recourse to vine pots. In this way I have 

 grown two hundred bunches of grapes, in a house 30 

 feet long and 13 feet wide, the year I planted it with 

 young vines. Sometimes grapes can also be grown in 

 pots over the paths at the back of pine-stoves, and in 

 similar positions, where borders are not available for 

 vines to grow in. 



It is also a very suitable way for amateurs who may 

 have a small greenhouse near a town residence, where 

 a vine -border cannot be made. They can annually 

 purchase half-a-dozen fruiting \dnes, and train them up 

 the rafters of their greenhouse, where they will bear 

 fruit, and at the same time afford a grateful shade to 

 such plants as balsams, cockscombs, achimenes, &c. 

 For the encouragement of such I may mention that, 

 at the June Show of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 

 of London in 1864, a medical gentleman, in Mount 

 Street, Grrosvenor Square, London, got a prize for black 

 Hamburg grapes grown on the roof of his residence in 

 a small greenhouse. 



Vines suitable for pot culture should be well ripened, 

 strong canes either one or two year old, in pots not less 

 than 10 inches in diameter, having been grown and 

 ripened in the full blaze of the sun. A cane 5 feet 

 long is enough for fruit, therefore they may be cut to 

 that length. I have found it a good plan to knock the 

 bottoms out of the pots, and set them either on some 

 rich soil in another pot or in a pit, into which they 

 root vigorously and swell double the fruit they would 

 do confined to their own pots. Give liquid manure 

 occasionally. 



