70 OPEN AIK GRAPE CULTUKE 



CHAPTER lY. 



PLANTING. 



Pkoper Age of Yines for Planting. — ^Wliere 

 young vines have "been raised from cuttings, in the 

 open ground, two years old probably is the best age 

 to select for planting out. Plants one year from the 

 cutting have rarely made sufficient roots to bear 

 transplanting well, and at a greater age than two 

 years the roots are so long that they generally receive 

 much mutilation in taking up — thus losing their 

 most fibrous and valuable part, viz., that at the ex- 

 tremities. Of course older vines, carefully taken up 

 and as carefully planted, will come into bearing in 

 shorter time than younger plants, and thus give more 

 satisfactory results where expense is no objection. 

 But where a large number of vines are to be set out, 

 two-year old plants, as above stated, or one-year old 

 plants raised from eyes in the spring, and grown all 

 summer in the open air, have decided advantages on 

 the score both of economy and ease of planting. 

 Indeed, we should prefer plain cuttings, planted two 

 to each stake, to one-year old vines raised from cut- 



