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making it very fine. Put the mould into the hole 

 again to within nine inches of the top, and it will be 

 ready to receive the vine. This must be now care- 

 fully taken up, with its roots as entire as possible, and 

 if any of them be bruised, or in any way injured, they 

 must be pruned back to the sound parts ; fix the vine 

 in the hole with its stem about three inches from the 

 wall, and let the bottom bud be just even with the sur- 

 face of the ground. Spread the roots out in a hori- 

 zontal direction at equal distances from each other 

 and in a similar manner to the spokes of a fan, and 

 then fill the hole with the mould nearly to the top. 

 Take hold of the stem, and, drawing it upwards a lit- 

 tle, give it two or three good shakes with the hand, 

 that the mould may settle well round the roots ; after 

 which, fill up the hole with the remainder of the mould, 

 cut the vine down to the two bottom buds, and the op- 

 eration will be completed. 



If the vine have been raised in a pot, the roots will 

 most probably be matted together, in which case they 

 must be freed from the mould, by having it shaken en- 

 tirely off; and if any of them should have grown in an 

 adverse direction, so as to cross each other, or in any 

 way that is likely to interfere with their future growth, 

 which is frequently the case with the roots of vines 

 raised in pots, all such must be cut completely out, 

 close to the part whence they have sprung. Also, such 

 of the roots as are very taper and long, and that appear 

 to have been over-excited in their growth, prune back 

 to within a foot of the stem, or to such parts as appear 

 to be sufficiently strong and healthy to generate new 

 fibres. Transplanting should always be done in dry 

 and still weather, and when the soil works freely. Du- 

 ring the removal of a vine, the roots must be carefully 

 kept from exposure to the atmosphere, the influence of 

 which w*uld dry up their tender extremities, and 

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