GRAPE CULTUEE AND WINE MAKING. 5G7 



twenty cuttings. Eacli cutting should have at least two Luds. 

 {See Fig. 123.) The cuttings will be from four to six inches in 

 length. These cuttings should be packed in boxes in moist 

 sand or damp moss, and buried out of reach of frost, or put in 

 the cellar. In the South thej may be set out in the fall, and 

 wc have set them out in Massachusetts in the fall, and protected 

 them until spring with heavy coatings of manure and mulch; 

 but the safest way, as far north as this, is to pack them away 

 until spring. The cutting bed sliould be prepared early in the 

 fall. Supposing we have one hundred cuttings, we want a bed 

 two rods long and four feet wide. This should be trenched two 

 feet deep and the compost worked in to the depth of eighteen, 

 inches. Six inches of the compost with two pecks of ashes 

 will make a good bed. In all these applications leaf mould is 

 especially valuable. The trenches for the cuttings should be a 

 little deeper than the length of the cutting and nearly perpen- 

 dicular on one side. {See Fig. 123.) The cuttings should be 

 placed from three to four inches apart in the trench, and the 

 trenches two feet apart. Fig. 123 shows the position of the 

 cutting when set. The top of the bud, however, should be 

 about one inch below the level of the surface. The earth 

 should be pressed carefully, but closely, about the cuiting at 

 the bottom, and more loosely about the upper bud, which 

 should be just covered. This will leave the trench an inch 

 lower than the surface. After the bud has made a shoot of two 

 or three inches the trench may be filled, covering the bml one 

 inch and mulching the ground on each side the rows. These 

 cuttings will make a growth of from three to six feet, and 

 should be kept tied to stakes to help the ripening of the wood. 

 In the autumn they should be transplanted, but not yet to the 

 vineyard. [See Transplanting) 



The third method of propagation is by layers. We left a cane 



