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turn them round two or three times. Now, I ask what plant will 
stand such a twist as this ? even some sorts of willows will not stand 
it, far less a plant possessed of so much succulence as the Oxalis 
Crenata. He says hot cinders will thoroughly do them. Now, if this 
twisting does not thoroughly do them, I do not know what will. 
I am sorry for your omission of the plan of building the bed for 
forcing asparagus, as you promised. I am afraid it will be too late in 
April, as the plants are rather more forward than usual; but if you 
think it will be in time next month, be pleased to insert them in your 
instructive Register. 
G. E. I. 
March 4, 1835. 
ON THE COILING SYSTEM OF VINES IN POTS. 
BY MR. J. M EAR NS, F.H.S., GARDENER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, WELBECK, NOTTS. 
Your readers will no doubt be desirous to know how the coiling 
system of propagating the grape-vine goes on. At every attempt it is 
still more prosperous. I have one of this season with a most promising 
crop of nineteen bunches of the white Frontignan. I have a great 
many in pots coiled last March, which will produce me from 760 to 
800 fine bunches, and in all, about ninety vines in pots and boxes, 
which will produce about 1000 bunches of grapes this year; and the 
bunches are as fine as you could desire under any method of cultivation, 
and will be matured in the greatest perfection. Many are at this time 
nearly ripe. 
You have not forgotten my notice to you last season, of a rootless 
shoot of the same season producing thirty-five bunches; the object was 
attained by stopping, so as to induce a second show of fruit, and they 
were all perfectly ripened. The vine is still in the box, and broke as 
luxuriantly, and showed as fine as I ever saw upon any vine ; it deve¬ 
loped seventy-eight bunches, and I have retained, thirty-six, which, 
I have no doubt, will be as fine of the kind (Purple Constantia) as can 
be. It is astonishing how well all the varieties of the Muscat of 
Alexandria bears, set and swell, by the pot culture. The sceptical 
Mr. Grey, I think, would be struck dumb if he were to see them, dnd 
I should be most happy to see him if he would pay me a visit ; I fancy 
he would become a convert to the pot culture of grapes. 
I have found that the best method to propagate the vine is from 
pieces of the old wood instead of the young. I cut off lengths of three 
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