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cause them to perish. The better way is, never to 

 take up a young vine about to be transplanted, until 

 its new residence be prepared to receive it, and then to 

 let its removal be effected as quickly as possible. 



Assuming now that the vine thus transplanted is a 

 young one, it may be considered equal in its growth to 

 one raised from a layer or cutting in the preceding 

 summer ; and as ample directions have already been 

 given for the management of a vine during its first 

 summer's growth, its future culture will be here taken 

 up at the autumn of the first year, and after it has 

 been cut down to the two lowermost buds, as directed 

 in Chapter VIII. , " On the Propagation of Vines." 



FIRST YEAR. 



Dec. 1st. As long as the weather remains open, 

 the soil round the roots should not be covered over, but 

 as soon as frost comes, a good covering of litter, or of 

 well-rotted stable manure, must be laid over the ground 

 as far as the roots extend, and if the weather be very 

 severe, it will be better also to cover over the stem, to 

 the depth of five or six inches above the top of it. 

 The young plant being thus well protected from the 

 severity of the winter, may remain in this state till 

 the first of March. 



SECOND YEAR. 



March 1st. Remove the covering and fork up the 

 surface of the ground, to the depth of two or three 

 inches, that the sun and air may freely penetrate it. 



April 1st. Keep the soil round the roots free from 

 weeds, and the surface of it loose, either by raking or 

 forking it up as often as necessary. 



May 1st. Now, remember, that only a single shoot 

 is permanently to be trained throughout the summer, 

 the object of leaving two buds in the previous au- 



