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freely develop themselves, and put forth abundant oots, so that 

 at the end of the year the layer is ready for use. The whole is 

 then taken up and the layer hardly suffers at all fium thS sepa- 

 ration from the parent stalk. This undoubtedly is the best 

 method of propagation, and is that which is preferred at Tho- 

 mery. Unhappily, on account of the expense '.Ltending the 

 transportation of the basket layers, the cultivator is often com- 

 pelled to use the unprotected layers, or cheveUes. 



Gbaft. — As to the graft, this mode of propagati'^n, or multi- 

 plication, is employed for trellised vines only as an exception, 

 and in circumstances analogous to those which render this 

 operation necessary in ordinary vineyards. We have in the 

 preceding part of this volume described the graft " en fente 



