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OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE. 



The young plant should be detached from the 

 parent vine in about five or six weeks after layering, 

 and may then be set out in its proper location. As 

 this will be about the latter part of July, or the first 

 of September, the vine will have plenty of time to 

 become well established, and make good roots before 

 winter sets in ; and it will form a strong plant, capa 

 ble of throwing up two permanent canes or producing 

 a specimen bunch of fruit, during the succeeding sea 

 son provided, of course, that the variety propagated 

 is of a vigorous and prolific character. An Isabella 

 vine, layered in this manner in an eight-inch pot, 

 threw up, next season, two canes, one twelve and the 

 other sixteen feet. Another, treated in the same 

 way, bore sixteen bunches of fine fruit. 



In several instances, we have used common four-inch 

 ^semi-tubular tile, instead of flowerpots, and with excel 

 lent results. They have the advantage of cheapness ; 

 but, in other respects, the flower-pot is to be preferred. 

 In some cases, the shoot is drawn through the hole in 

 the bottom of the pot ; but although we have tried 

 this in one or two instances, we have not found it 

 either convenient or satisfactory. 



A bearing shoot, layered in a good sized pot, or in 

 a common water-pail, may be made to produce a 

 well- rooted plant, which will perfectly ripen several 

 bunches of fruit .the same season, even after being 



