Planting of a Vineyard. 103 



Planting roots is more expensive, especially if, as we 

 have advised, twro-year old plants are used. These 

 plants must have been raised in the nursery, and the 

 planting of them out permanently is more expensive 

 than setting the crossettes, but their growth is more 

 certain. 



The crossettes cost less, as does also the permanent 

 planting of them ; but many of them, especially in dry 

 soil, fail, necessitating the substitution of others, and 

 thereby increase the expense, and injure the grand result. 



[Many of our largest vineyards have been made by using 

 cuttings instead of plants, and this practice w^ould still prevail 

 were it not for the extremely high price of cuttings of many 

 of the varieties which are now being introduced into the vine- 

 yard. The cutting of four eyes can be made into four good 

 plants, by the methods employed in their propagation ; hence 

 we can no longer afford to compete with the nurserymen, but 

 can do better to purchase our vines than to set our own cut- 

 tings. This will not always continue to be the case, and 

 when there is less demand for the wood we shall revert to the 

 old plan, and the cheaper one, of placing the cutting at once 

 into its permanent station in the vineyard, except in the case 

 of those sorts which do not grow readily under this out-door 

 treatment. 



- The advantage of planting the vineyard with cuttings con- 

 sists in the greater cheapness of the stock, and the greater 

 uniformity of the result, as well as in avoiding the check of 

 the plants, incident to transplanting the vines, and disturbing 

 the roots. 



The cuttings should have been prepared by burying them 

 in the soil, so that they may have formed a callus. The 

 ground having been properly prepared and laid out, with a 

 little stake at each point where it is designed to have a vine. 



