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THE GRAPE CTJLTTJRIST. 



Where the soil used for the cutting-bed is naturally dry 

 and porous, any or all the varieties may be planted in the 

 fall, provided they are protected from 

 frost during the winter. 



That there are certain varieties of the 

 grape that grow more readily from cut- 

 tings than others, in the open air as well 

 as under glass, is well known to every 

 vineyardist. But a variety that is very 

 difficult to propagate by cuttings in the 

 open air in one section of the country 

 may grow readily in another. Climate 

 has much to do in this matter, and 

 while I do not wish to convey the idea 

 that there are certain circumscribed 

 spots where a particular kind will grow 

 from cuttings when it will not do so 

 elsewhere, I wish to remark that the 

 same skill that would produce a good 

 plant of some varieties in Missouri 

 might fail to produce one in New 

 York. Knowing this to be the fact, 

 we are enabled to account for the di- 

 versity of opinion often expressed by 

 different cultivators coming from widely 

 separated sections of the country, for 

 each speaks of his own experience or 

 observation in his own particular local- 

 ity ; and while each may state the truth, 

 their stories will not agree, and one 

 may exactly contradict another. 



Tig. 18. 



MALLET CUTTINGS. 



The mallet cutting is usually made 

 by selecting only the lower portion of 



