90 OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTtIRE, 



whicli process is repeated until all the roots are im- 

 bedded in tlie soil. 



Plants raised from layers in general demand a 

 treatment j^eculiar to themselves. If they have been 

 produced as in Fig. 44, page 176, they will, of course, 

 be set out in the main as shown in Fig. 7. But if 

 they have been raised in the open ground, and the 

 roots have been produced from several joints or buds, 

 it will be found that while the roots are not disposed 

 in regularly-ascending layers, yet that some are lower 

 than others — ^the whole, however, in general lying in 

 one plane which is greatly inclined to the surface of 

 the earth. For such plants it will in general be best 

 to dig a trench or oblong hole, and instead of raising 

 a heap in the centre to lay the soil in the bottom, so 

 as to form a regularly inclined bed. The plant being 

 placed on this bed of fine soil, the roots are all ar- 

 ranged over it at once and covered in without further 

 trouble. 



In all these cases it will, of course, be necessary 

 that the stem of the plant be placed sufficiently near 

 to the stake which has been inserted in the hole to 

 allow of its being tied thereto without much bending 

 or wrenching, and if the weather be dry it will be 

 necessary to give the plants a good watering at the 

 time they are set out. 



When plants are received in pots — having been 



