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in this work to enter upon the cultivation of 

 trees, I cannot avoid giving a few remarks on 

 a fruit of so much importance. 



In the planting of vines, the first care 

 should be to select cuttings of those kinds 

 which are known to be good, and suitable to 

 the situation and soil in which they are to be 

 placed. 



" The grafting of vines upon vines is not 

 now in use," says Lord Bacon in his Natural 

 History; and adds, " the ancients had it, and 

 that three ways : the first was insition, which 

 is the ordinary manner of grafting ; the second 

 was terebration through the middle of the 

 stock, and putting in the scions there ; and 

 the third was pairing of two vines, that grow 

 together, to the marrow, and binding them 

 close/' 



Speedily, in his work on the vine, says, 

 " The grafting of grapes is but little attended 

 to, although of so much importance ; as a 

 bad vine may be improved without loss of 

 time ;" and he states, that he has had fine 

 grapes from the same year's grafts, which, 

 if permitted, will run from thirty to forty 

 feet the first summer. He mentions a vine 

 of the Syrian kind, in a hothouse at Welbeck, 

 that produced sixteen different sorts of grapes 

 from as many graftings. 



