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up they may be immediately planted in the vineyard, 

 provided all the circumstances connected therewith are 

 favorable ; if not, they should be put away in the ground, 

 where they will remain safely during the winter. This 

 latter operation is called heeling-in. 



Heeling-in. The usual method of heeling-in 

 plants, or laying in by the heel (roots), is as follows : 

 Having selected a dry and protected situation, a trench 

 is made in the soil a foot or more deep, and wide enough 

 to receive the roots of the plants, and of any required 

 length, the soil being thrown out upon one side. The 

 plants are then set thickly together in the trench, with 

 the tops in a sloping direction, and against the bank of 

 soil thrown out of the trench ; another trench is made 



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parallel to the first, and the soil taken from it is thrown 

 into the first, covering the roots, and carefully filling in 

 all the interstices between them. Press down the soil 

 and smooth off the surface, so that water shall not lodge 

 thereon. When one trench is finished, set the plants in 

 the next, and proceed as before. When all is completed, 

 dig a shallow trench around the whole, so as to carry of 

 the water and keep the situation dry. 



Fig. 29 shows the form of the trenches with the 

 embankment against which the vines are placed. But. 

 the trenches are shown at a considerable distance apart ; 

 this, of course, is not as it would be in fact, because the 



