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Andeoud lost in his fine plantation many fine 

 cuttings from having thus watered them. The 

 best method of planting appears to me to be 

 with the instrument of this Canton, imagined and 

 devised expressly for the purpose, and 'which 

 may be seen in the possession of several expe- 

 rienced proprietors, who take great pleasure in 

 showing these instruments to strangers.* The 

 hole made by the Vaudois instrument must be 

 half filled around the cutting with earth ; the use 

 of this instrument is attended with many favour- 

 able results, and has no disadvantages as a coun- 

 terpoise. Attention must from time to time^ be 

 given to the. cutting, heaping in fresh earth,' as 

 that around the young plant shall settle, but this 

 latter failing, for the reasons already given, must 

 be of poor meagre soil. The top of the hole 

 nearest the surface, to the depth perhaps of six 

 inches, should on no account be rich or fertile", 

 as the young vine would be greatly injured 

 thereby. The planting of the cuttings should 

 not be in too dry a time, for fear of causing the 

 earth to pack too closely around the plant, di- 

 minishing the chances of success, and at all events 

 opposing serious difficulty to the free passage of 

 the delicate fibrous roots, as they push the first 

 shoots. The regularity and design of the vine- 

 yard is important. I should recommend that 



* Having never seen the instrument here mentioned, I can- 

 not speak positively as to the form of it. From the description 

 of it, I am somewhat inclined to think it is like the common 

 auger of our house carpenters, which perforates the soil, dis- 

 charging the loose earth disengaged in turning, making a 

 hole nine or ten inches in diameter. TRANSLATOR. 



