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it cool and moist, see cuttings, in Paragraph 275 

 Layers from grape-vines are obtained with great 

 ease. You have only to lay a shoot, or limb, how- 

 ever young or old, upon the ground, and cover 

 any part of it 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, ob- 

 serve, vines do not transplant well. For this rea 

 son, both 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 intended to grow and produce their fruit. I 

 have now to speak more particularly of the vines 

 for my garden. PLATE I. page represents, or 

 at least, I mean it to represent, 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, last for ever, with- 

 out paint and without any kind of trouble. Now, 

 then, bear in mind, that each of these Plats is, 

 from East to West, 70 feet long. Each will, 

 therefore, take, four vines, allowing to each 

 vine, an extent of 16 feet, and something more for 

 overrunning branches, Look, now at PLATE IJJk 



