THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
March 1st, 1834. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.—ON THE CULTIVATION OF VINES IN POTS. 
By the Author of the Domestic Gardeners ’ Manual. 
They who possess the connected series of the Horticultural Regis¬ 
ter, and have attentively perused its pages, must be fully aware of 
the several instructive articles that have been written upon the sub¬ 
ject to which I again solicit the attention of your readers. Mr. 
Stafford led the way in your first number, and he was ably seconded. 
He added fact to fact; but still, some doubted. Mr. Mearns, of 
Welbeck, however, in his excellent and illustrative paper. Article 
III, of the 23rd number, performed the crowning act, and proved at 
least one of two things ; either that vines can be grown, and grapes 
of the highest quality produced,—abundantly so—bv pot culture, or 
that there is no faith, no confidence to be placed in man. 
I have, upon a former occasion, endeavoured to show cause for a 
steady perseverance in a course of experiments. I am, mvself 
pursuing that which I recommended to others; but as I have not as 
yet attained sufficient experience to qualify me for stating decisive 
results, I shall not swell this paper by entering upon any further de¬ 
tails of practice. My present object in fact is not so much to write 
upon the culture of the grape, as to solicit your readers’ attention to 
a curious circumstance, which has surprised and interested me not a 
little. Every one must be aware of the queries of your correspon- 
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