Y'.j THE AMERICAN GARDENER. ISO 



cultivation of the grape-vine in the open ground 

 of a garden, and, in doing this, I shall have fre- 

 quently to refer to PLATE III. The grape-vine i? 

 raised from cuttings, or from layers. As to the 

 first, you cut off, as early as the ground is open in 

 the spring, a piece of -the last year's wood ; that is 

 to say, a piece of a shoot, which grew during the 

 last summer. This cutting should, if convenient, 

 have an inch or two of the former year's wood at 

 the bottom of it ; hut, this is by no means abso- 

 lutely necessary. The cutting should have/owr or 

 five buds or joints. Make the ground rich, move 

 'it deep, and make it fine. Then put in the cutting 

 with a setting-stick, leaving only two buds, or joints, 

 above ground ; fasten the cutting well in the ground ; 

 and, then, as to keeping it cool and moist, see cut- 

 tings, in Paragraph 275. Layers from grave-vines 

 are obtained with great ease. You have only to lay 

 a shoot, or limb, however young or old, upon the 

 ground, and cover any part of i-t with earth, it will 

 strike out roots the first summer, and will become 

 a vine, to be carried and planted in any. other place. 

 But, observe, vines do not transplant well. For 

 this reason, botli cuttings and layers, if intended to 

 be removed, are usually set, or layed, in flower-pots, 

 out of which they are turned, with the ball of earth 

 along with them, into the earth where they are in- 

 tended to grow and produce their fruit. I have 

 now to speak more particularly of the vines of my 

 garden. PLATE I. represents, or, at least, I mean 

 it to repre-ient, on the south side of the Plats No. 

 8 and No. 9, two trelis works for vines. These 

 are to be five feet high, and are to consist of two 

 rows of little upright bars two inches and a half by 

 two inches, put two feet into the ground, and made 

 of Locust, and then they will, as you well know, 



