that part of Asia Minor to the south of the Caucasus and of the 

 Caspian Sea. According to De Candolle in " L'Origine des 

 Plantes Cultivees," it grows there " with the luxuriant wildness of 

 a tropical creeper, clinging to tall trees and producing abundant 

 fruit without pruning or cultivation." 



Where the information already published in the Bulletin is 

 not sufficiently explicit or complete it has been supplemented, in 

 the following notes, from other sources which are duly acknow- 

 ledged. 



PROPAGATION. 



Mr. Cradwick writes — " The wood that is cut from the vine, when 

 pruning, can be used for propagating. To propagate young 

 plants, take the canes which have been cut off, select all the wood 

 which is not thinner than one's little finger and cut this up into 

 lengths as shown in figure 4. This will give cuttings of two joints 



as in figure 5 ; cut close to the buds and quite smoothly at both top 

 and bottom of the cutting. Insert these, the right way up, into 

 a prepared bed, placing them three inches apart with two-thirds 

 of their length above ground,— one eye will thus be under the 

 ground and one above, as in figure 6. As soon as the cuttings 

 have made a growth of four or five inches in length they should 

 be lifted and potted, or planted into their permanent positions." 



The Rev. Mr. Griffith writes— " Vines are raised in a variety 

 of ways, from seeds, layers, single buds, and from cuttings taken 

 from healthy, fruitful vines. These should be obtained from 

 stout, well ripened canes of the present year, the stouter and the 

 more close-jointed the better. 



"The almost universal custom in England is to propagate from 

 single eyes. The custom with us is to grow from cuttings with 

 two to four buds, the fewer eyes the better. My method is to 

 use cuttings with two buds planted firmly in light soil so deeply 

 that the upper ends just peep above the surface of the soil ; the 

 bottom bud remains dormant and on the cut surface, just under it, 

 the callous is formed from which the roots proceed. All buds, 



