Planting of a Vineyard. 1 15 



ting ready in the earth, and throwing out a few rootlets, 

 the upper portion of it does not dry up, and the buds, 

 when at last exposed to the air, soon develop them- 

 selves. This practice might be used with advantage in 

 the dry soils of the south and middle of France. 



All these operations once completed, a light dressing 

 should be given to the entire surface of the soil, so as 

 to loosen it wherever it has been trodden down by the 

 workmen, and especially to level it well. 



This young plantation requires no other care during 

 the following summer than to be protected from 

 drouth, and from being overrun with weeds. To this 

 end, the ground is plowed or hoed a few times, to the 

 depth of about two or three inches. The lighter the 

 soil and the more southern the locality, the more fre- 

 quent must be the plowings. We explain, further on, 

 under the head of "Annual Cultivation of the Soil of 

 Vineyards," the way to do this plowing. 



Replanting. — No matter what may be the care be- 

 stowed on the planting of either cuttings or roots, there 

 will, invariably, be some failures — say one per cent, on 

 the roots, and two per cent, on the cuttings. There- 

 fore, substitutes, consisting of roots only, must be pro- 

 vided as soon as possible, — that is to say, the following 

 winter. For this purpose, a nursery must be made at 

 the proper time, in order to have the roots ready at the 

 time we have just named. 



As for the planting of the substitutes, it is done as 

 we have already explained. 



[In planting a vineyard, whether with cuttings or with 

 rooted vines, it is always desirable to set all the plants on a 



