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Fruit-Trees, Vines, and Shrubbery. 



MARCH AND APRIL. 



Cut and set all such fruit as you wish to propagate 

 by the slip ; such as currants, goosberries, raspber- 

 ries, &c. Plant out such fruit-trees as you wish to 

 remove, together with your grape-vines, particularly 

 such as you have propagated from your standing 

 vines. Prune your currants, goosberries, raspber- 

 ries, &c. remove all dead stalks, and support your 

 bushes by frames. 



MAY. 



Set by grafting such cions as you may have collect- 

 ed in February ; choose for this purpose the most thrif- 

 ty stocks, if you expect good success ; place two 

 cions in each stock ; but do not suffer more than one 

 to grow and come forward. Bend down such 

 branches of your grape-vines as you can bring to the 

 ground ; open a small trench 5 or 6 inches in length, 

 place in it your vine, (leaving the growing end open 

 to the air,) then cover over the v4ne with rich mould, 

 and cover it with a stone ; this will both steady your 

 vine and keep it moist. In this position it will take 

 root in summer; and in autumn, or winter, it may be 

 separated from the standing vine, and in March, or 

 April following, be removed to such a place as you 

 may choose. This is the surest and easiest way o* 

 propagating the grape- 



