CHAPTER VI. 



PLANTING. 



TTTHAT kind of vines are best ? With care, vines 

 three or four years old may be moved, and will 

 produce fruit the following season. Indeed, they may 

 show fruit the same season ; which should be removed at 

 once, in order that the vine may expend all its energies in 

 becoming established. A gain in time may be made by 

 taking large vines. The gain is, however, more apparent 

 than real. At the end of five years, a young vine will 

 probably have borne more fruit than one which was three 

 or four years old when transplanted. Layers have not had 

 the preference, especially layers of new growth, for the 

 reason that the young roots are very fibrous, as a general 

 rule, not running off like strong cords. Such a plant 



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