THE GRAPE. 3! 



prepared and grown with the rasping process. The lower 

 roots were strong and good, but the wood below the bud 

 all destroyed. 



The cutting called the mallet differs only in the fact 

 that it is made with an inch or less of the old, or two- 

 year-old wood attached to the base of the cutting; and in 

 that attachment of base or crown, are supposed to be 

 stored up a greater amount of vital, life-giving power than 

 can be concentrated in any one distinct bud, that junction 

 or bud being, in fact, filled with buds, dormant so long as 

 the main bud exists, but ready to do service as soon as 

 that is destroyed. 



FIG. C. 



Figure C shows a representation of this cutting ; and 

 we are strongly disposed to believe that when the most 

 sound, healthy plants, vigorous in every essential of vital 

 life, are wanted, they must be procured from cuttings 

 made to embrace this junction of old and new wood; 

 wherein, as in the crown of the seedling tree, the most of 

 life-giving power exists. We do not doubt but that under 

 care and culture, the plants grown from single eyes, or 

 two-eyed cuttings of last year's wood, may in time become 

 full and perfect; but their growth is constantly enfeebled, 

 and more and more, as the buds from which they are 

 gro-w n are destitute of full and perfect life. 



The ground in which these were planted, after being 

 kept in sand, so that they exhibited a slight callous or 



