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ON THE COILING OF TINES. 
the choicest sorts, they will be as perfectly matured as any grapes can 
possibly be by any other established treatment. I have a fine variety 
of White Muscadine, coiled on the above day, and it will perfect ten 
fine bunches vigorously and healthy. I had a cutting of some length 
from Clumber on the 15th of March last; I coiled six feet into the pot; 
and it will mature seven good and perfect bunches. 
The same impulse which prompted me at first to give to the public 
the earliest notice of so important a discovery, would at this moment 
induce me to do the same, as I still consider it to be an important fea¬ 
ture in the art of grape culture, by creating an emulation which was in 
deed and in truth required; by simplifying the art, and by showing 
that grapes can be grown profitably and successfully by the pot-culture; 
and if you will refer to the Register, you will there find my motive for 
ever treating of the subject. I was sorry that any man, or set of men, 
should take upon themselves to publicly condemn a system of culti¬ 
vating the grape which I had long practised successfully, and much 
admired for its great interest, simplicity, and importance. To induce 
the practice of pot-culture, I then stated that “ it may not be known. 
that good grapes can be produced from a rootless shoot the first season, 
by coiling a certain length of it into a pot, and plunging it into a 
bottom-heat till the fruit are set.” I cannot call to remembrance my 
exact expression, and the volume is not by me. The only important 
fact which I have discovered since I first noticed it, is the absolute 
necessity of retaining the moistened moss round the stems (above the 
pot) till the grapes are set; when they are perfectly safe, the moss can 
then be displaced, with all the roots connected with it. At the same 
time remove the pots from the bottom-heat to any convenient flue or 
stage, so as to be near the light and air. 
I have been too long an enthusiastic cultivator of the grape, to have 
announced any system to the public which I was not well convinced 
would stand the test of ages ; and I would willingly hope that the 
cause of failures in the coiling system, by others, proceeds from the 
same as that which prevented Mr. Gray from being successful in the 
pot-culture, and induced him to condemn the practice so unjustly and 
injuriously; namely, from a rather too lukewarm interest in the novel 
practice, rather than a prejudice against the system. I believe there 
is no set of men, of the same calling, so friendly amongst each other as 
gardeners ; and through my whole life I have taken great pleasure in 
their society, and no small degree of interest in their welfare; and if at 
any time I have been of the smallest service to any of them, it has 
greatly contributed to the enjoyment of my life. 
®i\ocro(])OQ states that “ he knows grapes may be developed, grown, 
