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which sprinkle a little water occasionally to keep the whole 

 in a moist state for some time. What is of essential 

 importance to success in this method is the leaving of the 

 eye or young shoot on the top of the stock, and allowing 

 it to grow for ten or fourteen days, when it should be cut 

 off, leaving only one eye and one leaf to draw sap to the 

 cion, till it be fairly united to the stock. With regard to 

 the time of grafting, it will succeed pretty well when the 

 Stocks are about to break into leaf. But there is more 

 certainty of success when the shoots of the stock have 

 made four or five eyes of new wood, for by this time the 

 sap has begun to flow freely, and the danger of bleeding is 

 over." 



It is evident, that by this mode of grafting vines, many 

 different kinds of grapes may be tried in the course of 

 three or four years, even in a very limited vinery, and the 

 best and most successful retained in cultivation. 



A mode of propagating which is thought to produce the 

 finest plants for fruiting of all others, is that by the single 

 eye. This is generally done early in February or March, 

 by cutting the wood of the preceding year's growth, so as 

 to have but one eye on each piece ; leaving about an inch 

 of wood on each side of the eye. These sections are to be 

 planted in pots with suitable mould, one to every pot, and 

 placed under glass, in either hot or cold frames, or in the 

 window of a warm room, and carefully watered. By con- 

 stant repotting and watering with liquid manure, they may 

 be made to grow ten or twelve feet the first year. One of 

 the advantages ascribed to vines raised thus from single 

 eyes, is that of having shorter joints, which renders them 

 capable of producing a larger amount of fruit 



Planting Out. When the vines raised in pots or other- 

 wise are to be transplanted, the months generally preferred 



