CHAPTER XII. 
PROPAGATION AND THE RAISING OF 
NEW KI 
Tue grape-vine may be propagated from Eyes, Cut 
tings, _ Seed, and by Grafting, 
Eyes.—An Eye is a short portion of a branch having 
only one bud, Fig. 22. This method is most commonly 
made use of for increasing the exotic varieties, and is 
equally applicable to the natives; it is the best for all 
purposes, where there is the convenience of a agg frame 
ripened yearling branches, and cut into 
as many pieces as there are buds, so 
that one remain to each portion; reduce the woed above 
and below, by a slanting cut, diverging from the bud on 
both ends; have in readiness as many pots, propagating 
pans, or shallow boxes with holes in the bottom, as may 
he needed, throw in an inch or two of small lumps of 
shareoal or broken ecrocks; over this, place a layer of 
moss, and fill up with soil, of loose but moderately fertile 
oe keep the earth moist, but not too wet, as the young oung shoots oe 
: — ee ees 
