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size anti flavour. As respects the watering, I have been in the habit 
of watering the vine in pots during the last four years. I never had 
occasion to water them twice a day, when a feeder was placed under 
the pot. Mr. Grey says the vine does not cut like well ripened 
wood, hut I venture to state, that vines in pots are fully competent 
to ripen the wood, when you can keep the roots pluvious or arid, 
warm or cold, at any period of the year. It is obvious that Mr. 
Grey has not made an impartial trial of vines in pots, or no doubt, 
like other gardeners, he would have produced fruit with success. I 
recollect once counting between forty and fifty shows of fruit on a 
single vine in a pot. I believe the same has been the case with seve¬ 
ral gentlemen’s gardeners in attempting to grow grapes from pots. 
I remember my father attempting to grow grapes from vines in pots, 
and he did not succeed, there being no more than two or three small 
bunches on each. Hence he determined to relinquish the system, 
until hearing of Mr. Stafford’s ample success, he went over, and that 
gentleman having kindly related his method of treating the vine in 
pots, my father has practised it ever since with success. He will 
forward a few remarks to the Conductor of the Register at the earli¬ 
est opportunity, if proof be wanting elsewhere as to Mr. Stafford’s 
system. I can assure Mr. Grey, that vines in pots can be brought 
to good perfection, if skilfully treated. 
Asliby de la Zouch , Sept. 4th, 1833. 
ARTICLE V. 
COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
The White Thorn, when young, is perhaps the most delicate 
and tender of the British native shrubs, but when arrived at maturity 
it is among the most hardy. The common but absurd opinion is, 
that as the thorn is very hardy when old, and may be cut and 
splashed at pleasure, that it is hardy in every stage of its growth; but 
few plants require more assiduous care .—Roxburgh Report , 1794. 
Note .—The extractor has long entertained doubts, upon the very 
principle here explained, whether the white-thorn be, or be not, the 
very excellent hedge plant which is generally supposed, or in other 
words, whether a great deal more money is not laid out in obtaining 
good white-thorn hedges and maintaining them, than would give 
others equally efficient for all farming purposes. And whether, at 
all events, in those countries where neat agriculture does not as yet 
prevail, the attempt to introduce thorn hedges is not a mistake. 
