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CULTIVATION OF VINES IN POTS. 
(lent, “ Vigorniensis,” anti of the doubts of a successful result which 
that writer very recently expressed. By referring to page 532, of 
the closing number of the second Volume, the reader will find the 
following sentences,—“He (Vigorniensis) much fears, notwithstand¬ 
ing the undoubted success of Mr. Stafford and others, that the sys¬ 
tem will not prosper to the extent anticipated. Mr. Grey informs 
us that he has tried it for years, and, as it should seem, with care 
and judgment, but he has failed.” He then proceeds to state three 
causes of doubt. 
Mr. Grey, it should seem, is the authority to whom Vigorniensis 
is most ready to refer: he had met with indifferent success himself, 
as expressed in No. 19, of “ Que?'ies and Answers ,” Vol. 2, page 377, 
and therefore, he leans to the suggestion of the one who doubts, in 
preference to the assurances of a host of others who have confidently 
declared their full, their entire success. This however, is natural, 
and I am not in the least surprised at it; but I confess that I am 
not only surprised, but astonished, at the circumstance which I now 
proceed to relate: 
Having, within the last few days, been favoured with a sight of 
Mr. Harrison’s Gardeners' and Foresters' Record; upon turning 
over a few of the pages of that work, in the first instance, I caught a 
glimpse of your correspondent’s assumed title. My attention was 
arrested to the subject, which is ever one of great interest to me. It 
bore date September 4th, 1833, and was the leading article of No. 5, 
“ On the Culture of Vines in Pots, by Vigorniensis.” Expecting to 
find a detail of facts agreeing in character with those stated by that 
writer in the Horticultural Register, judge of my surprise, when I 
perused the paper which, for the real benefit and indeed pleasure of 
those who do not see the work referred to, I must copy verbatim. I 
hope that the evidence thus afforded, the additional proof therein 
given, of the feasibility of the method of pot-culture, will plead my 
excuse for thus trespassing upon your pages, and upon the attention 
of their readers. 
“The cultivation of vines in pots is a department in the art of 
gardening with which I am very highly pleased, and in the treat¬ 
ment! have practised, the success has not only been ample, but most 
abundant; and I find it of very great advantage in serving the table 
w ith grapes for the dessert, for a very great length of time, by taking 
in a few pots at once. The following remarks include my method of 
culture.” 
“The vines I possess were raised by myself from single eves. I 
selected plump buds from short jointed, well ripened shoots; these T 
