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is again stopped. At the end of the summer, or before, if the wood 
is perfected, I turn out the plants, and otherwise treat them as done 
last year. When I pruned them in autumn I cut each lateral shoot 
back, so as only to retain two eyes on each.” 
“ The plants have not been repotted since the spring of 1829, and 
each year produce me at least twenty bunches of fruit. I take in 
about six plants at each time.” 
“ The kinds of vines I thus cultivate are, Black Hambro,’ Black 
Cluster, White Cluster, Black Anstantea, White Sweetwater, the 
Grisley and White Frontignac, and White Muscadine. All these 
kinds are very prolific, and of good flavour.” Vigorniensis. 
Sept. 4th , 1833. 
Here then, worthy reader, you have a fair and full recital of a 
mode of successfully cultivating the vine in pots; and with one or 
two ambiguities, which, not to be hypercritical, I shall pass over ; the 
description is sufficiently luminous and explanatory : but are we in 
the land of enchantment, or among the actors in the “ comedy of 
errors,” the antipholi and the dromios ? * e Can such things be, 
“ Or have we eaten of the insane root, 
“ That takes the reason prisoner?” 
Is it possible that, the “Vigorniensis,” of Worcester, the doubting, 
disappointed cultivator of the Horticultural Register, should be 
identical with the confident, the successful “ Vigorniensis” of the 
Gardeners Record! Can we for a moment admit the belief that, the 
Querist of Vol. 2, page 281, who felt the embarrassment which he 
detailed in the paragraphs 6 and 8 of that page, is one and the same 
with the writer who, scarcely five months afterwards could, from the 
experience of so many years, boldly, unhesitatingly assert that, his 
plants had, without one single failure, produced, each, fully, “ twenty 
bunches of fruit ?” Above all, can we deem it possible, in the very 
nature of thirigs—without indeed proving truth to be a liar —can 
we conceive that, this assured cultivator of fine fruit, who states his 
success, under date Sept. 4th, 1833, could again turn back to doubt 
and hesitation ; and in his notice of thanks to me, dated Oct. 4th, 
1833, state it to be his conviction that, “ the system will not prosper 
to the extent anticipated ?” See Vol. 2, page 532. 
What! will not the extended, never-failing experience of five 
years, satisfy his scruples P Can he doubt of success who has eaten 
of the fruit of his vineyard for one entire Lustrum P What a mon¬ 
strous thing is unbelief. 
When I first read the welcome paper signed by my friend “ Vig¬ 
orniensis” in the Record , I could not but hail it ; “ is Saul also 
