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them from three to four or five inches deep in the 

 earth ; leaving three eyes of the shoot out of the 

 ground, and shortening the top if too long. Or, you 

 may make layers in large pots, placed near the vine ; 

 and either draw the layer shoot through the hole at 

 the bottom of the pot, and fill up the pot with earth, 

 or bend the layer into the top of the pot a proper 

 depth into the earth. In the former method, a strip 

 of bark should be taken off quite round the branch, 

 or a piece of wire drawn tightly around, at the place 

 where the roots are wanted. In either method, 

 when the layers are rooted next autumn, cut them 

 off from the parent vine. 



Upon the subject of manuring vines, the following, 

 from one of the most distinguished writers on Agri- 

 cultural Chemistry of modern times, Doctor Justus 

 Liebig, of Europe, appears to us rational, as it seems 

 to follow nature in her modes of enriching the 

 soil. 



"I remember, (says Fauenfelder,) that twenty 

 years ago, a man called Peter Muller, had a vine- 

 yard here, which he manured with the branches 

 pruned from the vines, and continued this practice 

 for thirty years. His way of applying them was to 

 hoe them into the soil, after having cut them into 

 small pieces. His vineyard was always in a thriving 

 condition ; so much so, indeed, that the peasants 

 here speak of it to this day, wondering that old 

 Muller had so good a vineyard, and yet used no ma- 

 nure." 



Another example of this method of manuring 



