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cutting. This theory has for its support the fact, that 

 there is in such a cutting a larger amount of organizable 

 matter to be developed into the new parts to be produced, 

 and certainly, if neglected, short cuttings will be very apt 

 to suffer from drought, but in practice, it is found that 

 the short cutting plants have better roots, which are near 

 the surface, and even those plants, grown from single eyes, 

 are better burnished than long cuttings produced upon the 

 old plan, which placed the roots deep in the soiL 



Fig. 3. — ONE-EYE CUTTINGS OF THE GRAPE. 



There are various methods of preparing the single-eye 

 cuttings, some of which are represented in fig. 2. 



Among our cultivated fruits there is but a limited num- 

 ber that need to be propagated by cuttings, though, where 

 it becomes necessary, many of them may be grown in this 

 manner, to which procedure there are no serious objec- 

 tions, though there are some of a theoretical nature. The 

 currant and the gooseberry are increased almost exclusively 



