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A HOUSE FOR POT VINES. 
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were cut with the bunches thereon, and hung up in a cool fruit-room ; and the 
established Vines, which often, according to the season, began to show their 
bunches as they lay outside, were taken in. As long as I grew pot Vines, I had 
yearly two crops of Grapes off this house. 
Although the Vines were grown in pots, they were not fruited in pots, the 
pots being required for next year’s succession plants. By referring to the wood- 
cut, it will be seen that a wooden trough ran along the front part of the house, 
and another half-way up the rafter; these troughs were 17 in. wide and 22 in. 
deep. The pit in the middle of the house was filled with fermenting materials, 
and contained pots plunged to their rims. The temperature of the house was kept 
low until the roots or spongioles began to move round the sides of the pots. In a 
short time the eyes began to swell, and by keeping them perfectly level at this 
early season, they were induced to break with the utmost regularity, giving a 
bunch at every eye. Rich turfyv soil, mixed with fresh horse-droppings, aired and 
warmed in the pit, previous to planting out the Vines, was used to fill the troughs. 
The troughs being well drained, and a layer of sods placed over the drainage, 
we began at one end to plant out the Vines, carefully turning them out of 
their pots, packing them as they came out pretty closely to each other, filling in 
round the balls with the above-mentioned rich soil, and at the same time ramming 
the soil perfectly firm, both with the hand and with a wooden rammer, so that it 
might retain the waterings to a certain extent. The Vines planted in the lower 
