80 THE GRAPE CULTUEIST. 



CHAPTER X. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



VINES, whether grown from cuttings in the open ground 

 or under glass, will often require one season of nursery 

 culture before being planted in the vineyard. In such 

 cases they should be transplanted from the cutting-bed, or, 

 if grown in pots, they should be taken out, the earth shaken 

 from the roots, the tops and roots shortened, and then 

 planted in the nursery. This rule does not apply to well- 

 grown layers, nor to extra large one-year-old cuttings, but 

 only to such vines as are usually produced in nurseries. 

 The benefits derived from transplanting young vines should 

 not be overlooked. Vines, for instance, that are grown in 

 pots, generally have a mass of roots that are crooked and 

 distorted by being confined in a small space, and which 

 need to be separated, their ends cut off, and sometimes a 

 portion of them taken out entirely, and then planted where 

 they can have special care, such as mulching, watering, etc., 

 or they will make but little progress. It is much more 

 convenient to do this when planted in a nursery than when 

 scattered over a vineyard. 



A large portion of the vines that are produced from cut- 

 tings in the open air will have but few roots, and some- 

 times these will be nearly destitute of small branching 

 ones ; but if they are taken up and have their roots short- 

 ened, and are planted again, they will throw out a number 

 of roots from each of the original ones. The same remarks 

 apply to one-bud cuttings in open air. 



But the most important result derived from the nursery 

 culture is, that the vine becomes sufficiently strong the 

 second year to allow it to be placed at the proper depth 



