MANUAL OF MODERN VITICULTURE. 



in the place where the new plant is to grow and the other 

 in the place where the mother plant was ; manure is then 

 added, and the trench filled with mellowed soil. By making 



Fig. 45. Complete burying of the mother plant. 



trenches radiating from the old stock it is possible to 

 establish many new plants by the layering several shoots 

 from a single stock. 



(C.) Multiple layering. The multiple, or Chinese layering, 

 is used to obtain rootlings, and offers the advantage of allow- 

 ing these to be raised in one season, that is to say, in the 

 time usually necessary to obtain one cutting, and this with- 

 out wasting any wood. 



The operation is conducted in the following manner (Fig. 

 46) : A trench, 10 inches deep, is formed, starting from 

 the mother plant; a cane, selected for the purpose, is 

 stretched at the bottom of this trench, and kept in position 

 with little pegs at a depth of 2-J to 3 inches. All the buds 

 between the old stock and the place where the cane enters 

 the ground are removed ; when vegetation starts each bud 

 develops, and as soon as they reach 6 to 8 inches the trench 

 is carefully filled with soil mixed with manure and sand if 

 the soil is naturally stiff. When it is not naturally moist 

 the surface should be covered with mulching. Numerous 

 roots develop on the cane at the base of each shoot during 

 summer, and when the time for planting out has arrived the 

 cane is unearthed and divided between each node, forming so 

 many healthy rootlings. 



This practice may be considered as the most practical and 

 the most economical for multiplication of species rooting 

 with difficulty, such as V. Candicans and V. Berlandieri. 



