CULTURE OF VINES IN POTS. 
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the grape in pots. For early forcing, I recommended such as Fig. 
1 and 2; and for winter grapes fig. 3 and 4; or for either the hollow 
walled pits of T. A. Knight, Esq. figured in the Hort. Trans. Such 
pits as fig. 2, 3, and 6, can he cheaply constructed of posts and 
slabs, if a more substantial material be an object; and will he very 
sufficient for every purpose. Fig. 1 has alining of hot dung in front, 
and under the stage fig. 2 has a lining all round the hoarding. Fig. 3, 
has a flue inside, and is securely and neatly hanked all round with a 
turf wall. Fig. 4 has a flue on the outside, upon the plan of Mr. 
Bucks pit, and for winter grapes this is a good method. Mr. Atkison 
has some good pits for the purpose in the Hort. Transactions, but 
better adapted for early forcing than the winter keeping of grapes. 
Where economy is an important object, the pit fig. 3; is well suited for 
either early or late grapes as by a common cucumber or melon frame, 
placed upon the posts, just to give head room beneath the grapes; 
(to he trained to a trellis, either of wire, laths, or asier rods; twelve 
inches from the glass,) it will answer the purpose as well as the most 
expensive pit; the greatest expense being the small fire place at one 
end, and a flue and shaft at the other end to cany off the smoke. For 
winter grapes, the less fire heat and the more air is given to them 
the better, the great object being to keep out the damp. 
Nearly twenty years have elapsed since I first witnessed grapes 
successfully cultivated in pots, by a most enterprising Horticulturist, 
Mr. Buck, Gardener to the Hon. Greville Howard, Esq. Ilford, 
near Litchfield. They were indeed very fine, and very young vines 
in small pots. Ever since that time, I have more or less practised 
it, and never found it difficult to have plenty of fine bunches and 
fine grapes; besides being the best tasted I ever met with. I have 
annually produced three dozen fine bunches of grapes, and in their 
eaily stage, have picked off four times the number, from White 
Muscadines; and those growing only in fourteen inch pots for eight 
years. They were six years old when first potted, and during the 
eight years they neither received fresh soil, nor what is called ma¬ 
nured water. They were watered, as required, with soft pond water, 
"such as is supplied from the watering, or floating of meadows. Af¬ 
ter it has passed off, it holds, in solution; and in its most limpid 
state, all the food which most plants require; and is only such food 
as they are capable of taking up by their spongeoles, or digesting by 
the system. They are neither stone nor earth eaters : they are much 
more pure feeders than animals. It is obvious that water in its 
meandrings along the rich surface of meadows, and whilst depositing 
its grosser sediment, as it is filtering through the herbage, takes up 
