CHAPTER XV. 



PROPAGATION. 



WE propose here to give a description of the 

 several modes in which the vine is propagated. 

 There are perhaps few of our readers who will 

 propagate their own vines; still, it is just as 

 well that they should know how it is done; if 

 for no other reason, because it is an important 

 link in the circle of knowledge pertaining to 

 the vine. Nurserymen, who make propaga- 

 tion a specialty, surround themselves with the 

 necessary appliances iii their most approved 

 forms, and can therefore not only make better 

 plants, but make them at a much less cost, 

 than those who have nothing of the kind. 



The grape vine is propagated from single 

 eyes or buds, cuttings, and layers, and also by 

 grafting. New varieties are raised from seed. 

 We shall take them up in the order in which 

 they are named. 



