2 20 How to grow Grape Vines without Glass. 



HOW TO GROW GRAPE VINES WITHOUT GLASS. 



By Samuel Miller, Bluffton, Mo. 



I HAVE now for a succession of years grown, or rather jDropagated, 

 vines in the following way so successfully, that I am induced to give the 

 plan to your readers. 



Of course, many of the learned of the craft will say, We knew this 

 long ago, but did not think it worth while to make it known. And 

 why ? With many, simply because then every one would gi'ow his own 

 vines as soon as he could get a start of a new variety. This is my very 

 reason for making it known through your pages. 



A noted horticultural editor told me not long since that nurserymen, 

 as a rule, did not like horticultural publications, as they gave the masses 

 too much information, and thus spoiled the trade. As for myself, this 

 is inapplicable, for it has ever been my motto not to hide light under a 

 bushel, but to add my mite to help along this noble cause, horticulture, 

 in which I have grown gray, without any pecuniary advancement 

 thus far. 



But all this has no bearing upon the subject in hand. 



In the first place, trim the vines early in the winter, and keep the 

 wood buried on the north side of a building or fence, or in a cellar, 

 packed in clean sand. Well decomposed sawdust or tan-bark will do. 

 Save, also, roots from one eighth to one quarter of an inch in diameter. 

 Not cuttings that are rooted, but the small ones that are usually to 

 spare off larger vines when taken 'up. If the wood be quite shoit 



Root. 



