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the clay, leaving only small holes for the eyes. Tie 

 some hypnum-moss upon the clay, npon 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 

 youfig 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 re- 

 gard 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 Feb- 

 ruary 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 sectionB are to be planted in pots with suitable 

 mould, one to every pot, and placed under glassj in 

 either hot or cold frames, or in the window of a warm 

 room, and carefully watered. By constant repotting 

 and watering with liquid manure, they may be made 

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



