VARIOUS WAYS OF PLANTING VINES. 



While I have planted vines in nearly every possible 

 way, and have found them all succeed well, at the same 

 time there are some methods preferable to others. There 

 is, however, one which I do not include in the above, 

 that to my own knowledge has been practised, and which 

 I describe that it may be avoided. In doing so I will 

 give one illustration of it that came immediately under 

 my observation. Four years ago, a gentleman, who is 

 a keen amateur gardener, whom I shall call A., erected 

 a vinery ; made a good border ; purchased vines that 

 had been grown in 5-inch pots ; made holes in his 

 border sufficiently large to take in the balls as turned 

 out of the pots ; filled in the soil round the balls ; and 

 finished with a good watering. This was done in 

 January. These vines, it seems, broke irregularly; 

 for the canes were left some 5 feet long, made poor 

 growths, and at the end of the season were anything 

 but satisfactory year-olds. A/s partner in business, 

 whom I shall call B., at this date made up his mind 

 to erect a vinery also ; and, being acquainted with 

 B., I was asked to give him some advice about the 

 planting of his vines. They were procured at the 

 same place as A/s. I agreed to plant them for him ; 

 and, on the occasion of planting them, B. invited A. 

 to see the operation, which took place early in March. 

 I shook all the soil from the roots, and pruned off any 

 decayed portions of them. I then spread them out 

 equally over the surface of the bed prepared for them, 

 laying three joints of the wood, as well as the roots, in 



