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which sprinkle a little water occasionally to keep the whole 
in a moist state for some time. . What. is of essential 
importance to success in this method is the leaving of the 
eye or young shoot on the top of the stock, and allowing 
it to grow for ten or fourteen days, when it should be cut 
off, leaving only one eye and one leaf to draw sap to the 
cion, till it be fairly united to the stock. With regard to 
the time of grafting, it will succeed pretty well when the 
stocks are about to break into leaf. But there is more 
certainty of success when the shoots of the stock have 
made four or five eyes of new wood, for by this time the 
sap has begun to flow freely, and the danger of bleeding is 
over.” 
It is evident, that by this mode of grafting vines, many 
different kinds of grapes may be tried in the course of 
three or four years, even in a very limited vinery, and the 
best and most successful retained in cultivation. 
A mode of propagating which is thought to produce the 
finest plants for fruiting of all others, is that by the single 
eye. This is generally done early in February or March, 
by cutting the wood of the preceding year’s growth, so as 
to have but one eye on each piece, leaving about an inch 
of wood on each side of the eye. These sections are to be 
planted in pots with suitable mould, one to every pot, and 
placed under glass, in either hot or cold frames, or in the 
window of a warm room, and carefully watered. By con- 
stant repotting'and watering with liquid manure, they may 
be made to grow ten or twelve feet the first year. One ot 
the advantages ascribed to vines raised thus from single 
eyes, is that of having shorter joints, which renders them 
capable of producing a larger amount of fruit 
Planting Out.—When the vines raised in pots or other- 
wise are to be transplanted, the months generally preferred 
