PLANTING VINES. 51 



In other words, do not remove your vines until you 

 can plant them. Though vines may be taken up and 

 kept from the soil for three or four months in a moist 

 and warm situation, yet all cultivators prefer the 

 former method or time of removal. 



There are two or three advantages connected with 

 spring planting, which we will name, which he who 

 sets out his vines in the fall cannot possibly have. 



If in the spring you intend to plant, you have the 

 winter before you for prej^aration. You may proba- 

 bly with your OAvn labor and a little assistance be able 

 to make as much as you think it best to plant. You 

 have more time on your hands, and therefore you can 

 afford to do your work better and thoroughly. To get 

 ready for fall planting, you have to hurry everything, 

 and consequently your work is likely to be slighted. 

 In making your patch in the winter, you can study 

 the characteristics of the location, and learn to what 

 depth and extent it is liable to be flowed, and whether 

 it is flowed from natural springs or water that is carried 

 into it from other sources. 



Having called your attention to the time of re- 

 moving and ^jZa?2^in^ vines, we will present to the 

 reader the various methods of planting, and specify 

 those modes which are preferred. It must not be sup- 

 posed that there is one uniform plan of treating the 

 vine. The cultivation of this plant is but in its infancy, 



