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CULTURE OF VINES IN POTS. 
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I wish Mr. Buck would be so kind as to gratify us by laying bis 
practice before the public; none would feel more gratified than my¬ 
self. 
The “Journeyman Gardener” lias not yet favoured me with a call; 
I should be happy to receive a visit from him, and I will show him 
pendant shoots on grafts of this year, from four to five feet long at 
this time, and many likely to be six feet by the end of the season, 
upwards of fifty of them being upon the same tree; which has been 
barren for more than fifty years. I anticipate blossom buds this sea¬ 
son upon many of them ; and, if the season he favourable, fruit next. 
I have sent you a drawing of one of the hollow-walled pits, by T. 
A. Knight, Esq. with an internal pit for tan, or leaves, to ferment, 
to plunge vine pots into, or to be heated by steam as all our pine 
pits are at Welbeck. I think such a pit excellent for growing vines 
in pots; but it is more expensive than the above plans. 
Professors Lindley and Rennie, of the London and the King’s 
Colleges, have lately published two excellent and very cheap little 
works upon Horticultural subjects, of the most importance to the 
horticultural amateur, and the practical gardener; neither of which 
ought to he without them, for in that case they can only grope their 
mazy way through their horticultural vocations. Professor Lindley’s 
is entitled “ An Outline of the first principles of Horticulture,” and 
by a little attention to his clear yet brief explanations, it will be 
found of the utmost importance to those who are ambitious to excel 
in horticultural pursuits. Professor Rennies is called an “Alpha¬ 
bet of Scientific Gardening, for the use of beginnersI have no 
doubt that those of long and extensive practice will derive much 
important information by studying it, and will at last admit, that, 
without the aid of these two little treasures, they would never have 
known their way, and that they were keys to all the secrets of the 
art, which being carried along with them in their practice, all diffi¬ 
culties had vanished as they approached, and they had nothing to do 
but add perseverance to practice. 
The Professors have also published two excellent little books upon 
Botany, which ought to he in the possession of every lover of flow¬ 
ers : Mr. Lindley’s is entitled “ An Outline of the first principles of 
Botany and is a most useful little work to the young botanist, 
and most interesting to the older student. The study of Mr. Ren¬ 
nie’s little botanical work, entitled an “Alphabet of Botany,” leads 
the student imperceptibly to a better acquaintance with physiological 
Botany, and I would recommend him, next in order, to study the 
excellent Lectures of Anthony Todd Thompson, M. D.; the practi- 
