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the season be dry, to perish. I have found that 

 this inconvenience rarely succeeds the method 

 here recommended. In taking the cuttings from 

 a vine too young, we incur the danger of having 

 defective plants, as the vines will be too porous. 

 If from a vine too old, the reverse is to be ap- 

 prehended, they will not be sufficiently so, the 

 wood will be too close and stubborn, vegetation 

 proceeds sluggishly and with difficulty, and the 

 plants do not generally prosper, however unre- 

 mitting the care bestowed on them. 



ARTICLE III. 



Method of planting the cuttings. 



There are some vine dressers who plant their 

 cuttings with a Fossoir,* in a trench, covering 

 them with earth to the depth of six inches with 

 a Plantoir Picquet.\ 



Some vine dressers prefer the rooted plants, 

 which they place at the depth of eighteen inches, 

 whilst those who prefer the cuttings, plant at the 

 depth of eight 'inches. There are those also who 

 pack or tread the earth so tightly around the cut- 



* I have been compelled to adopt these technical terms, be- 

 cause we have no such instrument in our agriculture as the 

 Fossoir, which is, as the name denotes, the instrument used in 

 planting in a trench. TRANS. 



t Resembling our crow bar. TRANS. 



