GRAPE VINES PLANTING. 



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PLANTING. 



Two descriptions of young vines, called '-canes," are employed for planting 1, young 

 growing canes raised the same season ; 2, ripened canes of the previous season's growth. 



The first method can only be practised in inside borders. Vines raised from eyes in 

 the way described on page 244 can 

 be planted out in May or June pre- 

 ferably before midsummer in the 

 places they are to occupy, having 

 inured them to the air of the struc- 

 ture for a few days before planting. 

 The young vines need not have been 

 grown in larger pots than 6 or 7- 

 inch pots, and from these they should 

 be planted with the ball entire, press- 

 ing the soil of the border against it 

 as firmly as possible without injur- 

 ing the roots. If the border consists 

 of turf closely packed it should be 

 chopped up where each vine is to be 

 planted, about 18 inches wide and a 

 foot deep, a little older soil, such as 

 will crumble, being mixed with it. 

 With the soil from the pots, also 

 that of the border, moist, water 

 should not be given immediately, 

 but the vines damped ; also shaded 

 for two or three days from sunshine ; 

 but if the soil be rather dry, afford a 

 supply of tepid water. The vines 

 will commence growth immediately 



and, under good management, make canes 20 to 30 feet in length, stout and firm, the 

 first year. In the pot system of raising the plants the roots are more or less spiral, but 

 these do not form the after-rooting system, as fresh roots push so fast from the collar or 

 base as to overpower them, the vine roots spreading horizontally, or slightly inclining 



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Fig. 77. VINE FOB INDOOR PLANTING. (From The Journal of 

 Horticulture.) 



