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freely develop themselves, and put forth abundant roots, so that? 

 at the end of the year the layer is ready for use. The wliole is- 

 then taken up and the layer hardly suffers at all from the sepa- 

 ration from the parent stalk. This undoubtedly is the best, 

 method of propagation, and is that which is preferred at Tho*- 

 mery. Unhappily, on account of the expense ^tending the 

 transportation of the basket layers, the cultivator is often com- 

 pelled to use the unprotected layers, or chevelees. 



GEAFT. As to the graft, this mode of propagation, or multi- 

 plication, is employed for trellised vines only as an exception^, 

 and in circumstances analogous to those which render this- 

 operation necessary in ordinary vineyards. We have in the 

 preceding part of this volume described the graft " en fente, 



