THE GRAPE VINE. 7 1 



Those who have a fancy for very large hunches can 

 grow the Syrian and Barharossa. 



SELECTING VINES FOE PLAlfTING. 



The speedy and permanent well-doing of vines de- 

 pends very much on the condition in which they are 

 when planted. There are two descriptions of vines to 

 which I have a decided ohjection. These are such as 

 are raised by layers from old vines, and those that are 

 more than one year old from the eye. The former 

 method is not much practised now — the latter is common 

 enough. These, I have invariably observed, never start 

 into growth so satisfactorily, nor do they ever make 

 such vigorous and fruitful vines, in a given time, as 

 those that are only one year old, provided that they 

 have been properly grown and ripened. The one-year- 

 old vine is what I consider the best and most desirable 

 for general planting, especially in the case of inex- 

 perienced cultivators. At the same time, it is a matter 

 somewhat difficult to decide whether a plant raised from 

 an eye in spring, and planted when 2 or 3 feet high 

 in May or June, will not equal, if it do not actually 

 outrun in the race of success, the year-old plant. Por 

 my own part, in the case of vineries such as have been 

 recommended admitting of the vines being planted 

 inside, I would have some difficulty in making a choice 

 between a well-ripened and well-rooted one-year-old 

 plant and one raised from an eye the same spring. The 

 results from both descriptions of plants are so nearly 

 alike'that it is of little moment upon which the choice 

 should fall. But, as has been already said, the one-year- 

 old plant is safer in the hands of the inexperienced ; and 



