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As curiosity will be created by such a remark; I beg to state, 
that such grapes were repeatedly produced by a Mr. Minnett, for¬ 
merly gardener to Mrs. Powes, Berwick House, near Shrewsbury. 
I have there seen bunches of Hamburghs, from fifteen to sixteen 
inches long, and from eight to ten inches across the shoulders; the 
berries all of a perfect black, as close as they could grow together, 
and the size of a boy’s large marbles. 
I have coiled into pots this season upwards of a hundred branches ; 
forty and more of which I have got into action. I shall continue to 
introduce others till the middle of June ; if I can starve them into 
dormancy bv cold bleak exposure, or by burying them in clay-cold 
murkey graves or caves ! or by being sunk under a wall on a north 
aspect. I am begging of all my friends, the long branches which 
they cut out in pruning; and as fur as Somersetshire, Worcester¬ 
shire, Staffordshire, &c. &c. so that I expect, in a short time, to haye 
a stock of plants sufficient to produce 1000 bunches the first season. 
I should not have sent this account to you at this time, had it not 
been m v anxious desire that the public should be in possession of it, 
ere the season for finishing vine pruning is past. It is certain it soon 
will be, and then one year’s enjoyment is lost; and that I am sure 
would be a year of vexation to many of your amateur readers. That 
such may not be the case, I most anxiously beg of you not to lose a 
month ; but, if it can be inserted in no other place of next Register, 
let it be inserted as a postscript. 
Welbeck Gardens, Ollerton, January 13 th, 1834. 
ARTICLE IV. 
MORE ABOUT THE COILING SYSTEM OF PROPAGATING VINES. 
BY MR. MEARNS. 
I hope to see a Postscript attached to the February Number of the 
Register upon the coiling system of grape vines,* as I should in¬ 
deed be sorry if your readers were to lose a season so important in 
the cultivation of that desirable object. Put in your cuttings of 
young wood, in coils of three, four, to five feet, blinding all the eyes, 
except the two uppermost. I choose to leave two eyes till the finest 
gets the lead, and is safe, for fear of accident to one alone; I then 
slip the weakest off. If placed into a bottom heat, and the eyes be 
* It reached us too late for insertion in any part of February Number. 
