20 The Bulletin. 



Chestnut : Stock.- — American chestnut. 



Method. — Whip-grafting above ground. 



Tlie best stock for the chestnut whether Japanese, Spanish or 

 native is the American chestnut. The seed should be stratified as 

 soon as gathered and planted out in spring. The stock should be cul- 

 tivated during the first season and in the second, if they have attained 

 sufiicient size, they may be whip-grafted. 



Currant : Propagated from cuttings and sometimes by tip-layers. 



The cuttings should be removed from the plants in fall and stored 

 under suitable conditions until spring, when they are planted out. 

 The following autumn they may be ready for transplanting or they 

 they may have to remain for two years in the nursery. 



Dewberry: Propagated by root-cuttings, tip-layers and layers of 

 whole canes. 



The dewberry may be propagated from root-cuttings like the black- 

 berry. The canes may be placed with their tips on the ground to 

 form tip-layers ; or the canes may be laid on the gTound and covered 

 over at the nodes or joints, at which joints roots will form. 



Fig : Propagated by hard wood cuttings and single eye cuttings. 



The fig may be propagated from cuttings as directed for the cur- 

 rant. If the variety is particularly desirable single-bud or eye-cut- 

 tings may be made. These should be planted in pots or a very well 

 prepared seed-bed. 



Gooseberry: Propagated from cuttings of matured, tip-layers, 

 wood and by mound-layering about June. 



May be propagated as directed for the currant. Mound layers may 

 be made about the month of June. It is usually best to remove the 

 layers from the plants and cultivate them one year before setting 

 them out in permanent plantings. 



Grape : Cuttings, serpentine layers. 

 Cleft-grafting of old stocks. 



The favorite methods of propagating the grape is by cuttings. 

 These may be taken directly from the vine sometime before the sap 

 starts to move, and planted. 



Grape^ Muscadine : Cuttings and layers. 



With the Muscadine type the favorite method is by means of 

 layers. 



