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ing fine plants is by the single eye. This is the favorite mode 

 of propagating plants for fruiting. Early in Febiuary or 

 March we cut the shoots of the preceding years wood into eyes, 

 leaving about an inch on each side of the eye. plant these 

 with their eyes uppermost into pots, and place them under 

 glass, either in cold or hot frames prepared for the purpose, or 

 in the window of a warm room, where they will be carefully 

 watered. These eyes may easily be made to grow ten or 

 twelve feet the first season, by constant repotting and water- 

 ing with liquid manure. Plants grown by this method are de- 

 cidedly the best rooted, forming more capillary fibres, conse- 

 quently more nutritious support to the vine is absorbed : they 

 form shorter joints, and are capable of producing a greater 

 quantity of fruit. We have seen a plant of the Black Ham- 

 burg, only eighteen months from the eye. have nine bunches, 

 weighing about eight pounds. 



Transplanting. — If Grape vines have been cultivated in 

 pots, they may be transplanted at any period of the year, 

 though we give preference to the months of October. Novem- 

 ber, March or April Admitting the ground is fully prepared, 

 dig out a place for the reception of the roots, eighteen inches 

 deep, and as wide as the roots require, to lay them, at their 

 full length, without bending or twisting in any manner. If 

 any of them are broken or diseased, cut them off. Keep thc- 

 roots near the surface, distributing among them fine earth 

 give each three or four gallons of water, allow it to subside 

 when fill up with earth and press it down gently with the foot 

 In such a house as we have figured, one plant to each sash 

 will be enough. The back of the house may be planted with 

 Figs, which should be covered up in Winter, in the same man- 

 ner as the vines. It is absolutely necessary for the health of 

 the vine that it should be planted where the sun will fully 

 shine upon it during some hours of the day. We have often ob- 

 served small vines planted in front of the house, where they are 



