VINES IN POTS. 
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in making public a process which does him so much credit, and I 
am the more anxious to do so because I believe, that, at no far dis¬ 
tant period, vines in pots will be the means of supplying the tables 
of our nobility and gentry with fruit unrivalled in excellence, every 
month of the year. 
Whoever has paid attention to what Mr. Mearns names, will, 1 
am sure, credit his assertions, when he states that he grows large 
crops of grapes on the same vine in the same pot, for eight succes¬ 
sive years, without the least renewal of earth. This practice, I have 
observed to answer in many places, but I never could succeed in it to 
my satisfaction, and therefore adopted the method of heading down 
the stem and reducing the root. As there is so little difference be¬ 
twixt the two processes, I shall not here state which I prefer. After 
a multitude of experiments, which I have been making on very 
young and small vines in pots, I am brought to the conclusion, that 
if they be properly treated through the summer, with respect to heat, 
light, air, and water, and not taken out to ivinter till the wood is 
perfectly ripe; there may be as many bunches produced as under 
any other course of treatment that can be adopted. I have also good 
reason to believe, that this might be accomplished in much smaller 
pots than I formerly advised to be used; and here I wish strenuously 
to press this subject on the attention of others, for should we succeed 
in this respect, the advantages will be very great and numerous. 
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Fig. 13, ( a) is intended to represent a plant pruned the first year; 
(6),the same plant pruned the second year showing the spurs; ( c ) a 
pot with the plant curved, until the extreme point is brought down 
to the pot, the stem being tied with twine; (d) a plant coiled round 
three sticks, which causes the eyes to break stronger than by any 
other means. 
