PROPAGATION OF THE VINE. 



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removed from the parent plant. This forms a very 

 elegant and ornamental object ; but, except as a matter 

 of curiosity, such a process is worthless. In rare 

 instances, perhaps, specimen bunches might be grown 



Fig. 46. 



out of doors, and perfected in the house, thus avoid- 

 ing numerous evils to which the finer varieties of the 

 vine are subject in this climate. In all cases, it is 

 essential that the layer be kept moist and warm. As 



