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rated from the nicther plant in the autumn, and 

 transported in safety to purchaserSj or to places 

 where they may be wanted. 



Cuttings are made of short-jointed, well-ripened 

 young wood, about a foot more or less long. A 

 quantity of these are potted singly, or two or three 

 together in the same pot ; and usually plunged in a 

 moderate hot-bed, where they readily strike root, 

 and, by after-care in re-potting, are reared up to be 

 transplantable. 



Raising young vines from eyes was first practised 

 by Kennedy, and afterwards by Speechley. A single 

 bud, with an inch of wood on each side of it, is 

 pressed into the surface of a small pot of good earth, 

 and covered all but the point of the bud, and placed 

 in heat. Roots are produced by the wood ; the bud 

 shoots upwards, and becomes the stem of the young 

 tree ; which is shifted from one pot to another, and 

 from one hot-bed to another, till they are saleable 

 plants. 



Next of the soil. — The vine, like all other fruit- 

 trees, grows most luxuriantly in rich deep soil. In 

 that it has large shoots, leaves, and perhaps a few- 

 large bunches ; but the shoots and fruit ripen late, if 

 they ripen at all, and the fruit will be very insipid. 

 In opposite circumstances these results are reversed. 

 In a shallow light soil, the growth is moderate; the 

 shoots are small, though not weak; the bunches 

 numerous, well ripened, and of high flavour. The 

 shoots or young wood are also thoroughly hardened, 

 having prominent buds, and break with vigour and 



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