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mence to push upwards, fed by the tender roots in the sand, they are 
gradually hardened by more direct exposure to the air and are 
finally transplanted, when they make sturdy plants. 
Single Eye Cuttings. 
It is often necessary to keep the vine-cuttings a month or 
two before they can be planted out; they should in that ease be 
put temporarily in a trench dug in well drained and moist soil and 
banked up with earth where they will keep dormant; at planting 
time only a sufficient number of cuttings for the day’s requirements 
should be taken out. 
Rooted vines, whenever obtainable at a reasonable price, are 
much more certain to strike root and grow. In many parts of the 
Eastern States, where the spring and summer months are moist, 
cuttings are generally planted in preferenee, but in this State rooted 
vines are more reliable. Although the cost of rooted plants is five or 
six times as much as that of cuttings, the certainty and the more uni- 
form growth and early cropping are in favour of rooted vines as 
compared with cuttings. 
A small nursery should be planted to provide rooted vines for 
filling up blanks oceurring after the first season’s planting. Few 
cuttings probably strike better than vine-cuttings, and those can 
be got at pruning time for little over the cost of trimming. 
For stocking a nursery, shorter cuttings than those generally 
used for planting out in the open field are preferable; they develop 
a better root system, und are less liable to dry up after having made a 
fictitious growth, as more care and attention can be given them, and 
moisture in the ground can be better maintained by cultivation or hy 
oceasional waterings, mulchings, ete. 
