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CHAPTER V 
PLANTING AND MANAGEMENT THE 
RST YEAR 
In choosing vines for planting, see that the wood is 
well ripened and solid, and the roots clean and healthy. 
One year old, propagated from the eye are best for the 
grapery, or from cuttings for the vineyard, but those of 
two years are not objectionable. The most proper time 
for planting is about the beginning of March, under glass, 
or so soon as the ground is in good working order, out of 
doors, when the vines have not been neuine started 
into growth, as they are then just commencing to move 
from a long repose, and have no great time to remain in 
their new quarters before fresh rootlets begin to push 
fo When deferred much longer, these fibres are sub 
ject to injury, being very brittle. If the vines have been 
grown in pots, which is generally the case, with the ex: 
oties, the soil ought to be entirely shaken from them, ad 
the entangled roots carefully straightened out, care being 
used when planted, that they are spread in all directions 
diverging from the stem. After loosening up well, and 
smoothing over the surface around on the base, where it is 
intended to fix them, have in readiness a quantity of the 
same material as the border is composed of, broken up 
fine and mixed with a third portion of leaf-mould, if to be 
had—if not, it is not of much consequence, but the young a : 
rootlets soon lay hold of it, and a good start is half the © 
