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in the fall, provided they are protected from frost dur- 

 ing the winter. 



That there are certain varieties of 

 the grape that grow more readily from 

 cuttings than others, in the open air as 

 well as under glass, is well known to 

 every vineyardist. But a variety that 

 is very difficult to propagate by cut- 

 tings in the open air in one section of 

 the country, may grow readily in 

 another. Climate has much to do in 

 this matter, and while I do not wish to 

 convey the idea that there are certain 

 circumscribed spots where a particular 

 kind will grow from cuttings when it 

 will not do so elsewhere, I wish to re- 

 mark that the same skill that would 

 produce a good plant of some varieties 

 in Alabama, might fail to produce one 

 in New York. Knowing this to be the 

 fact, we are enabled to account for the 

 diversity of opinion often expressed by 

 different cultivators coming from 

 widely separated sections of the country, 

 for each speaks of his own experience 

 or observation in his own particular 

 locality ; and while each may state the 

 truth, their stories will not agree, and 

 one may almost contradict another. 



Mallet Cuttings. The mallet 

 cutting is usually made by selecting 

 only the lower portion of the one-year- 

 old cane, and by cutting through the 

 two-year-old wood, leaving a small piece 

 of it attached, so that the whole resem- 

 bles a small mallet. Fig. 18 shows the FIG - 



