CHAPTER VII. 



PLANTING VINES. 



Time for Removing the Yines — Best Time fob Planting — 

 Methods of Planting — Sod Planting — Objections to — 

 Separation of Sod Yines — How to place the Roots and thb 

 Runners — Methods of Cutting and Planting — Broadcast 

 Method — Propagation from the Seed in the Berry — 

 Methods of — Objections to. 



The cranberry vine can be removed from the soil 

 in wHcli it lias been cultivated, or from its native 

 swamp, either in the spring or fall of the year. If the 

 vine is taken np and left exposed to the winter weather 

 it is almost sure of being killed, and therefore no one 

 to whom this fact is known would do so. The vine 

 can be removed from the soil and left without earth 

 through the winter under some circumstances. K 

 they are taken up in the fall and left in a moist cellar 

 until spring, they will, when planted, take root and 

 do well. "I would as soon have vines left in my 

 cellar through the winter, for spring planting, as I 



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