488 THE VINEYARD. [Sept. 
and runners, place it in the pot and fill up the spaces around the 
sides and over the surface of the ball with fine earth. Water the 
whole when potted, and remove them to the shade for eight or ten 
days till newly rooted; then you may plunge them to their rims in 
any open part of the garden, there to remain, watering them occa- 
sionally till the approach of winter, when the pots are to be placed 
under the protection of frames and glasses till taken into the forcing 
departments. 
This practice is absolutely necessary, in the middle and eastern 
states, as during winter the earth is so hard frozen as to render it 
impracticable to take up the plants out of the open ground, when 
wanted, without injury; moreover, when they are potted at this 
season, their roots will be well established before the time of forc- 
ing commences, and consequently the plants will be much more 
productive of fruit. 
THE ORCHARD. 
Collecting ripe Fruit. 
Apples and pears that attain now to full maturity, rarely keep as 
well as those which ripen in the ensuing month; but when it is de- 
sirable to preserve them as long as possible, they must be treated 
as directed in October. 
When planting of fruit trees is intended in the months of Octo- 
ber or November, opportunity ought to be taken of any leisure time 
that may now occur for the preparation of the ground, as directed 
in March, under the head Orchard. 
THE VINEYARD. 
I am very happy in having it in my power to exhibit to my fellow 
citizens and the public, the annexed comparative and very interest- 
ing table of the progress of vegetation in Pennsylvania, Paris, the 
ci-devant Champagne and Burgundy; the more especially as it 
proves the decided advantage we possess, of a full month, in the 
season of our vintage, over those famous wine countries. It also 
exhibits the medium temperature of heat in Pennsylvania, the West 
Indies, Paris, Champagne, Lorrain, Arras, Brussels, and Stockholm, 
in Europe, Algiers in Africa, and Pondicherry in Asia, which, no 
doubt, will be very interesting to meteoTrologists and other men of 
science. But it is of peculiar importance, on account of its forming 
