40 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



pot, and receiving special treatment, with a 

 view of producing the best description of plant : 

 nothing could be better. A vine three or more 

 years old, that has not been transplanted, has 

 generally but little value ; and yet people very 

 often pay as much for one such vine as would 

 buy a dozen really good ones. They are gen- 

 erally bought under the supposition that they 



Fig. 9. 



will get fruit from them sooner, and more of 

 it ; but they do neither. The results and 

 advantages of root-pruning and transplanting 

 are admirably shown in Fig. 9, a sketch from 

 life. 



These different kinds of plants are not all 

 planted in precisely the same way, and our 

 purpose now is to point out the difference. We 



