PLANTING. 1 1 



Lay off the vineyard carefully with a line, and put down a 

 stick some 15 inches long, where each vine is to grow. Dig 

 a hole about a foot deep, and plant two cuttings to each stick, 

 in a slanting position, separated 6 or 8 inches at the bottom, 

 and 1 inch at the top of the hole ; throw in a shovel full of 

 rich vegetable mould, from the woods, to make the roots 

 strike freely ; let the top eye of the cuttings be even with the 

 surface of the ground, and cover with half an inch of 

 light mould, if the weather is dry. Leave the hole at 

 the lower part about two-thirds full, until midsummer ; then 

 fill up. 



If both the cuttings grow, take up one of them the follow- 

 ing spring, or cut it off under ground, as but one vine should 

 be left to each stake. 



To prepare the cuttings for planting, bury them in the earth 

 when pruned from the vines, and by the latter end of March, 

 or early in April, which is the right time for planting, the 

 buds will be so swelled, as to make them strike root with 

 great certainty. 



Each cutting should contain at least four joints, and be 

 taken from wood well ripened ; if a small part of the old wood 

 is left on the lower end, so much the better ; cut them off 

 close below the lower joint, and about an inch above the 

 upper. Set out some extra cuttings in a nursery to replace 

 failures in the vineyard. 



Some good vine-dressers have recommended planting with 

 roots one or two years old, but the experience of others is in 

 favor of planting at once with cuttings in the vineyard ; the 

 vine being never disturbed by removal makes the more thrifty 

 and permanent plant. 



Of course the planting should only be made when the 

 ground is warm and dry, or mellow. 



Persons residing at a distance from vineyards, had better 

 procure roots one year old, as the cuttings are apt to suffer 

 from transportation. 



