114 THE CULTURE OF THE GKAPE. 



scion having been kept in a dormant state. — Loudon'' s 

 Magazine, page 494, vol. 12th. 



In grafting vines. I have cut them off at the surface 

 of the ground, and with a knife have split the stump in 

 the middle and inserted the grafts, cut in a wedge shape ; 

 they have always grown. (See grafting, as practised b^' 

 Mr. Cleveland and Dr. Sidney "Weller.) 



TREATMENT OF THE VINES. 



First Year. 



The first year, they should not be forced, but allowed 

 to push naturally as the season advances. 



In the vicinity of Boston, they will push their buds 

 early in April ; let the shoots from the three eyes grow 

 until they are two or three feet long ;* train up the lead- 

 ing one to the roof, and stop the other two, by pinching 

 off the end of each ; the leading cane must be stopped, 

 when it reaches the top of the rafters ; the vine will be 

 strengthened, by allowing it to make a free growth ; 

 after September, stop all shoots as they push, that the 

 vine inay the better ripen the wood.f 



Early in the spring throw open the house and give air 



* Perhaps it is best to allow all the lateral shoots to grow, the first ti'.rce 

 months of the first season after planting, to guard against accident to die 

 leading shoots, as any check to the growth of the top is felt, in a c-n.-rt- 

 sponding degree, by the roots. Eor instance, if only one shoot is b.:'!:i„' 

 trained up, and this should be broken out, and the vine should malii^ a 

 second, it would be but a weak one, and a loss of one year in t)ie fruiting 

 would be the result. 



f Vines will grow as rapidly in u moist temperature of 80° or 90' as 

 under any circumstancea 



