134 TUE GRAPE. 
plant. ‘The most common process is to merely cover with 
soil, leaving the ends protruding, any time from the fall 
of the leaf until the rise of the sap, but as there is a 
“best” in all things, so in this, and we may as well show 
it. Early in the summer, when the young growth has 
Fig. 25, 
attained to the length of six or eight inches, bring down 
the branch intended to be laid, cover the whole length to 
the depth of three inches, and peg it down, leaving the 
tops that were the previous laterals above the soil; during 
the summer roots will be emitted at every joint, and of 
eourse there will be as many plants as there are shoots 
same operation may be performed any time up to the 
middle of July, but if sooner done, a better stock of good 
well-rooted plants will be the result. It sometimes so 
happens, that an increase is wanted from some favorite or 
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_ more of the side branches may be drawn 
ue through the bottom of a flower-pot, the 
. hele of which has been made 
