GENERAL PRA CTICE. RAISING FRUIT TREES. 103 



ing, and is shown in Fig. 17. A cane (/>) prepared in the previous season by letting 

 it grow on an established vine at a convenient place, is bent down and denuded of all 

 buds except where they exist on the upper side sufficiently far apart to admit of layer- 

 ing, all cuts being dressed with the shellac solution described on page 92, to prevent 

 bleeding. Ten-inch pots (o) are efficiently drained, and a piece of No. 20 L. W. G. 

 wire secured to a four-inch length of No. 6 L. W. G. wire outside the hole of the pot ; 

 the first-named wire, doubled and passed through the pot, secures the cane and eyes in 



position. The soil should be pressed rather firmly, and the cane depressed in the centre 

 of each pot, the eye level with the soil or very little covered. The passing of the wires 

 through the soil and mode of securing the cane are shown in p. This mode of raising 

 vines has been known from a remote period as " serpentine arching." In an ordinary 

 vinery or greenhouse the buds will start freely and push roots into the soil as repre- 

 sented. Duly supplied with water and liquid manure and accorded a light situation, 

 short-jointed firm canes with plump buds will be formed the same season, leaving them 



