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ONE VINE TO A HOUSE. 
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place by that gentleman, in company with Dr. Hooker and Mr. Ball. It has the 
general habit of S. hypnoides , the flowering branches ascending in just the same 
way from a tangled, tufted mass of old stems and barren shoots. The fleshy- 
coriaceous leaves 6—8 to a shoot, on narrowly-winged petioles, each with a strong, 
leafy bud in its axil, have a cordate-reniform blade half an inch deep, with three 
deep primary divisions, and each furnished with 3—5 broad, oblong, bluntish 
teeth. The flowers are as large as those of S. granulata, from 4 to 9 in a lax 
corymb, the petals obovate, pure white in the upper half, greenish at the base, 
and distinctly three-veined; they are produced in the last week in May. 
The plant yields axillary buds so profusely that no doubt it will hold its 
ground, and become one of our popular favourites, for rock-work decoration, for 
which it is specially adapted, from the superiority in size of its flowers to those of 
all its immediate allies. The general shape of the leaves recalls that of S~ 
geranioides , but there the divisions are much more numerous, sharper, and. 
irregular, and the profuse axillary gemmae are absent.—T. M. 
ONE VINE TO A HOUSE. 
JN the Florist and Pomologist for 1869 (p. 158) will be found some remarks. 
C$3 headed as above. The vine in question had been allowed to extend every year, 
ff ripening a crop of early grapes in the stove end of the house, and a later one 
tj) in the cool end or greenhouse. At that time the leader had gone through both 
houses, and returned to about half-way through the stove end; it reached the 
end during the summer, and I left 7 feet to try the experiment (as there stated) 
of exciting both ends of the vine while the middle was kept cool; and strange as 
it may appear, I cut in May as fine Grapes for colour, size, or flavour, from the 
hot end, as ever need go to table, while the centre 25 ft. remained as inactive as 
in an ordinary greenhouse. Last year, 1870, at pruning time I left 7 ft. more 
leader, which brought it back to the starting-point where planted, a distance of 
86 ft., and there I cut this year the first bunch of first-rate grapes, and which 
weighed 1 \ lb. all but an ounce. Of the 86 ft. of stem 6 ft. are required to bring 
the bearing shoots to the top, so that there are only 80 ft. of bearing wood, on 
which I have ripened 93 bunches, and have 7 still (Oct.) remaining. When I first 
began to cut, I could only find one bad berry in all the 93 bunches, which were 
the admiration of all who saw them, they were so beautifully black, and the 
prettiest specimen of grape-growing that ever I saw. The vine has made 24 ft. 
this summer on its second turn round its little world, so that its point is now 
110 ft. from the root, and looks as well and as healthy as ever. I ought to have 
mentioned, in the proper place, that having proved so satisfactorily last year, the 
possibility of ripening grapes at the root and point ends while the middle was- 
kept cool, I did not care for any more fancies with it, and as we had long been 
talking of building a vinery on that poor stony spot, I thought it would be the 
wiser plan to turn these two small houses into one, do away with all the plants, and 
