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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
Vines were springing up perpendicularly the laterals with bunches, and in order 
that they might be made serviceable for detachment when ripe, each was inveigled 
into a 5 in. pot, to root away on its own account precisely like the larger one. The 
pots were full of roots, and stood regularly distributed along the top of the high 
kerbstone common in Pine stoves, not less than six, and in some cases eight, to 
each vine-rod. To make the whole more dinner-table lil^e, sprays of the common 
Selaginella were made to clothe the surface of the pot, and the laterals were kept 
well rid of shootlets by pinching. 
This is a much more excellent plan than taking the rod through the bottom 
of the pot; moreover, it enables the grower to have six or more plants to each 
Vine, which is a great deal for a pot-vine treated in this way. On the dinner-table, 
the plants, laden with fruit hond Ude^ are of the most captivating character, and 
look as fresh a week after, as they do the first day they are placed upon the table. 
The plan is so excellent and so novel, that I thought a simple record of it might 
be interesting to your readers in general, and pomological readers in particular. 
I might add that Mr. Lewin finds it attended with better success not to be 
too quick in inserting, or rather placing, the layers on the ground within the 
limited pot-area (for there is really no insertion), because of the tendency to 
weaken the food-supply from the principal store-pot, if the laterals were pro¬ 
vided with their independent roots at too early a stage. 
The sorts grown are chiefly Black Hamburgh, with Buckland Sweetwater 
as a white; and there is a succession of them, some doing duty a fortnight 
ago, others as late as can be. The plan is of quite recent adoption with Mr. 
Lewin; and his employer, who is pretty exacting in matters of taste in con¬ 
nection with indoor decoration of all kinds, is quite delighted with his Tom 
Thumb fruiting Vines.— James Anderson, Meadowhanh Nurseries, Uddingston 
(in Gardeners* Chronicle'). 
THE CULFOKD GKAPE SPORT. 
® HE Culford Grape Sport, which has reappeared this season, deserves a 
record in the pages of the Pomologist. The case stands thus:—Some 
f few years ago, Mr. Grieve, of Culford, grafted the Golden Champion, the 
Trebbiano, and Mrs. Prince’s Black Muscat, on a Black Alicante vine. The 
Golden Champion rod was several years afterwards cut out, leaving the other two 
arranged in the form of the letter U. The Alicante had been worked below all 
this on a West’s St. Peter’s. In 1874 the rod of Trebbiano, produced a cluster of 
grapes, which was pronounced by those who saw it to be Golden Champion. 
Much discussion took place and some doubts were expressed concerning it, which, 
as the spur did not show fruit in 1875 or 1876, could not then be cleared up. This 
year the sport has reappeared, and we avail ourselves of the account given in the 
Gardeners* CViromc/e (September 1,1877, p. 272) to extract a few of the descriptive 
particulars. We propose, says our contemporary, to confine ourselves to a brief 
mention of what we ourselves observed on a personal inspection of the vine in 
question a few days since ;— 
