without exception, are produced on the node or joint of the cane, 

 but roots grow from any part, nodes and internodes alike. By 

 the time the cutting has made three or four leaves it will have 

 exhausted its stored-up reserve of food and must depend upon the 

 new rootlets for further supplies. If a little good soil is drawn 

 around the base of the bud from which the new growth proceeds, 

 a number of new roots will appear at the base of the green shoot, 

 and when the young plant is transferred to the quarters where it 

 is to remain permanently, the lower portion of the parent cane 

 may be cut away and we thus secure a young vine which is prac- 

 tically a plant from the bud. The severed portion on which are 

 the first formed rootlets, and the bottom dormant bud may also be 

 planted and, as a general rule, will furnish a stout, healthy vine." 



Mr. A. F. Barron says* — "Vines are propagated by cuttings in 

 the vineyards of all the great vine-growing countries, where plants 

 are required by thousands. The cuttings are selected and cut 

 into lengths of from eight to twelve inches, leaving usually at- 

 tached a small piece of the two-year-old wood, — a " heel" as it is 

 termed. The lower eyes or buds are cut out leaving only two 

 or three at the top of the cutting. In the vineyards these cut- 

 tings are planted in the ground at once, in small trenches, and 

 treated as permanent plants," 



Grafting Grape Vines — During the year IQOI-02 experiments 

 were carried out in grafting cultivated grape vines on stocks of 

 the native wild grape (Vitis caribaea) but this was not found to 

 answer. 



Old plants of the wild grape may be seen in limestone districts 

 with main stem 7 , of a considerable thickness, but these must be of 

 a great age. Usually the wild grape has slender stems, and by 

 actual experiment it was found that these are not nearly so vigor- 

 ous in growth as stems of cultivated varieties, both being grown 

 under similar conditions, therefore the plant is not suitable as a 

 stock plant for grafts of cultivated varieties of Vitis vinifera. 



SITE FOR VINERY. 



Mr. W. J. Thompson writes — " The vines must be planted so as 

 to be exposed to the morning sun ; if they can have sun shin- 

 ing on them all day, so much the better ; but vines must have 

 sun from early morning to past mid-day to do any good." 



Mr. Cradwick writes — " The first indispensable qualification for 

 the site of the vinery is that it should be where the vines will 

 receive all the sunlight possible ; the next is that it should be in 

 such a position that the roots of trees should not penetrate the 

 border and so rob the vines of the store of plant food provided for 

 their use." 



Mr. Griffith writes — "The selection of a site for either a vine 

 or a vineyard is a matter of some importance. In towns, as a 

 rule, there is little room for choice in the matter. It is indispen- 

 sable, however, that sunlight and plenty of air should be secured. 

 ' The grape vine succeeds well in low lying situations not much 



* Iu Vines and Vine Culture. 



