58 CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



EYES FOR THE PROPAGATING-HOUSE. 



These having been prepared in January or February, 

 and kept in boxes, mixed with light, dry, sandy loam, 

 by the 20th of March or 1st of April they will be found 

 to be somewhat calloused, and on the point of throwing 

 out roots. As the propagating-bed should now be cleared 

 of bedding-out and other winter cuttings, it is free for 

 the grapes. For economy of space, use no boxes or pots, 

 but insert the eyes in the bed of sand, which is three to 

 four inches in depth upon the slate table. The eyes 

 should slant at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and 

 be inserted to such depth, that the eye shall be barely 

 visible after the sand is watered and settled. The eyes 

 should be put in an inch apart in the line, and the lines 

 two inches apart. Slender-growing kinds, or small wood, 

 may be put in thicker. Indeed, all kinds may be started 

 considerably thicker ; but they will require more care to 

 prevent damping, and also an earlier and more careful 

 removal. At this rate of planting, one foot of the width 

 of the table will take two hundred and sixteen cuttings ; 

 and a house sixty feet long will take 26,352 on the two 

 sides and one end. 



