138 THE GRAPE. 
should be loosened a trifle, and in a week or two after 
wards they may be removed entirely. 
Seed—The preparation for seed, and the after manage- 
ment, may be exactly the same as for eyes; so there is 
no occasion to give any directions on this head, furtber 
than by s.ating that it should not be buried deeper than 
hal“ an inch. If there is not the convenience of a hot-bed 
or hot-house, the hardy kinds may be sown in the begin- 
ning of April, in a cold frame, or, where there is no glass 
accommodation at all, they may be made, with care, to 
vegetate in the open ground, but not with the same cer- 
tainty. 
The Raising of New Kinds——New or different varieties 
of any plant are generally raised from seed ; in fact, it 
may be said that all permanent ones are so. It occasion 
ally, though very rarely, so happens, that a plant will pro- 
duce a sport in some particular branch, which, if budded 
Beech, are examples of this kind; but such sports are not 
always to be depended on, as they are apt to again pro- 
duce offshoots like the original parent ; consequently we 
_ eannot say that they are really permanent, — the 
return backwards only oceasionally oceurs; still it 
ae, and pemeetanes | is the case. 
BY nay ee E hange, 
ery rarely 
_ either in the original plant, or or buds or branches which 
may be taken from it or from them in after years. Not. 
