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VINES IN POTS. 
the others as near half the size as I could select. In the first week 
in January, I placed them in my usual place, where they have shewn 
730 perfect and well formed bunches, those in the small pots are 
equally as productive as their neighbours in the larger ones; and by 
a process I wish to explain ; namely, putting a large feeder under 
each pot, in which should be put about three inches of rich light 
earth. I have no doubt but they will perfect their productions well; 
the apertures at the bottom of the pot should be opened, and a few 
stones, the size of a wallnut, should be put under each pot to admit 
the roots to protrude through the hole into the earth in the feeder, 
which I am confident may be done by this addition, and without 
any additional room. 
Another experiment tried on a single plant gave me reason to in¬ 
fer that much might be accomplished in a little room. On the 9th 
of November, I introduced a plant into a pine stove, which very soon 
developed a fine crop of fruit, and which matured in the first week 
in March following. After the fruit were gathered, and the wood 
ripe, I pruned the plant, or rather as I call it, renovated it, and pla¬ 
ced it in the open air, in the coldest place possible, where I permit¬ 
ted it to remain until Midsummer, at which time I placed it on the 
front flue of a vinery, where it made as fine a shoot as I could possi¬ 
bly wish to see in the system of pot culture. 
The above circumstance is of much importance to the proprietors 
of small houses; it will enable them to prolong the fruiting season to 
almost any extent; for a plant or plants subjected to this process 
will be inclined to remain torpid very long the succeeding summer. 
This circumstance is very advantageous to those who attempt to cul¬ 
tivate late grapes in pots, a practice which I think will be adopted to 
a great extent. 
The pot culture is, I think, above all others adapted to gratify the 
proprietors of small houses, not only by their accommodating pro¬ 
duce, but with the gratification they afford in the process of culture. 
One instance, among many others, I beg to relate. In the first 
week of April, last year, I received a letter from a gentleman, re¬ 
questing me to furnish him with a plan for a house in which he pro¬ 
posed to cultivate grapes in pots, and also on the roof, but the vines 
in the latter situation to be so arranged as not to interfere, at least as 
little as possible, with those in pots. This house was ready for the 
reception of the plants by the first of May, at which time he solicited 
me to send him some plants that would produce fruit the same sum¬ 
mer. Having only four young plants, that I could spare, and these 
by no means strong, I sent them without delay, and to my surprise. 
