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and upwards, with alternate layers of grape leaves, and 

 are sent by railroad, fifty or sixty miles." 



Horace W. S. Cleveland. 



Propagating Vines for Planting. — ^Tlie cnstoin of 

 planting cuttings immediately in the vineyard rows, 

 where they are to remain, has been, heretofore, the prac- 

 tice, and is still so, in most countries ; the cutting con- 

 sisting of well-ripened wood of the current season, with 

 a small part of the old, or two years wood, the form be- 

 ing that of a small mallet. The wood of the vine roots 

 freely, and cuttings of one season, if well ripened, I 

 have always found to grow. The best method of raising 

 vines, is by single eyes, leaving a quarter or a third of 

 an inch of wood on each side of the eye. This method 

 requires a bottom heat, to meet with good success.* 



The cuttings of my vines, which are made at the au- 

 tumn pruning, I usually mix with the leaves, manure, 

 and litter, with which the border is covered, and they, 

 though placed there as manure, root freely, and we are 

 constantly weeding them up, during summer. It is said 

 that the Scuppernong, and some other kinds of Ameri- 

 can grapes, do not do well from cuttings. "With such 

 varieties, the process of layering must be resorted to, 

 and, to make the most of the cane, in this case, the shoot 

 to be layered, should be cut between each eye, obliquely, 

 two-thirds through the wood, and a piece of shell, or 

 glass, or hard wood, put in the cut, to prevent its closing. 

 Roots will be thus readily made, and the vines may be. 

 taken oif, and planted out in the fall, or early spring. 



* See Mr. Roberts's direction?, for this plan of growing vl 03. 



