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Although it may not be a profitable one under all 

 circumstances. 



The usual system is to transplant the one-year-old 

 vines into nursery rows, cutting off the young cane to 

 within one or two buds of its base, and then allow the 

 vines to grow the following season without staking or 

 other care beyond that of keeping them from being 

 smothered by weeds. Good strong vines are, without 

 doubt, produced in this way, and it is, perhaps, the only 

 one by which the propagator can expect to secure a mod- 

 erate compensation for his labor. 



When vines have grown one season in the nursery 

 they ought to be large enough to be transplanted into 

 the vineyard ; but if not, then they should be cut down 

 to within one or two buds of the last season's growth, 

 and but one cane allowed to grow, as in the year before. 



If, at the end of the second season in the nursery, 

 the vines have not made a growth of from four to six 

 feet, then we may rest assured that there is something 

 radically wrong, either in the soil or the vines, and they 

 should be dug up and either discarded altogether, or 

 trimmed root and top, planted again in another situa- 

 tion, and treated the same as one-year-old plants. But 

 if the vines have made a vigorous growth, then they are 

 ready for the vineyard, and in much better condition for 

 the purpose than they will be at a future time. Vines 

 older than three years are seldom so valuable for trans- 

 planting as those younger. 



When the vines have arrived at the proper size for 

 vineyard planting, and so soon as the leaves have fallen 

 in the autumn, they should be carefully taken up by 

 means of the garden fork. Kaise the roots as nearly 

 entire as possible, for if any are to be shortened or to be 

 cut entirely away it is better to have all before the eye, 

 so that a selection can be made, than to do it with the 

 spade and wholly by Juince. When the vines are taken 



