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MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING 



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FIG. 6. Planting cuttings. 



are shorter, and a little slanting if longer than six inches. The 

 cuttings are set at a depth which permits the upper buds to 



project above the ground, 

 as shown in Fig. 6. When 

 the cuttings in a row are 

 placed, two inches of soil 

 are put in and pressed 

 firmly about the base of 

 the cuttings. Then the 

 trench is evenly filled 

 with earth and the cul- 

 tivator follows. Doing 

 duty by the young plants 

 consists in cultivating 

 often during the sum- 

 mer to keep the soil moist and mellow. 

 The cuttings are planted as soon as the 

 ground is warm and dry enough to work. 

 To delay planting too long invites injury 

 from drought, which almost annually parches 

 the land in eastern America. Irrigation 

 gives more leeway to planting time in the 

 West. When warm sunny weather, accom- 

 panied by an occasional shower, predomi- 

 nates, the cuttings start growth almost at 

 once, as shown in Fig. 7, and by fall, all 

 things being propitious, make a growth 

 from four to six feet. With the cuttings 

 three inches and the rows three feet 

 apart, 58,080 vines may be grown to the acre. 



FIG. 7. A cutting 

 beginning growth. 



Single-eye cuttings. 



New and rare varieties are propagated from single-eye cut- 

 tings, thereby doubling the number of plants from the propa- 



