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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER 



a young state. The borders being prepared, they may be 

 considered fit for the reception of the young plants. 



As is the case, in the planting all fruits, much care should 

 be taken in the selection of the plants, both that they be the 

 desired sorts, as well as that they be plants of fitting size and 

 well rooted, without such be the case, there can be little hope 

 of success. 



Plants originated from cuttings, and which have been two 

 years cultivated in pots, and have been properly treated and 

 trained as a single shoot, are most generally preferred, par- 

 ticularly by Nicol, Justice, and others ; and although many 

 persons prefer plants originated from eyes, or single buds, 

 the latter, if properly treated, are decidedly the best ; but it 

 is difficult to procure them equally strong as the former, par- 

 ticularly in the nurseries. Where such plants are preferred, 

 it is, if possible, better to grow them on purpose, or cause 

 them to be grown by some respectable nurseryman. They are 

 generally better furnished with roots, and always make stronger 

 plants than those, which are propagated cither by cuttings of 

 considerable length, or originated by layers. The latter mode 

 of propagating the vine is very generally in use, but they 

 seldom are found to make so great a progress afterwards, as 

 those which have been propagated from single eyes. 



An expeditious mode of propagating the vine is often prac- 

 tised by Mr. M'Donald, in the Dalkeith Gardens, and de- 

 scribed by P. Neill, Esq. in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, Art. 

 Hort. This mode, however, is not applicable, unless in a 

 garden where there are vines already established, or where per- 

 mission can be obtained in the garden of a friend. Towards the 

 end of J une. or beginning of J uly, when the vines have made 

 new shoots from ten to twelve feet long, and about the time 

 the fruit is setting, he selects any supernumerary shoots, and 

 loosening them from the trellis, bends them down so as to be 

 able to introduce the bent part of the shoot fully within a pot 

 filled with rich mould, which is kept regularly moist. The 

 shoot, thus introduced, should have a portion of the old wood 

 from which it issues, containing a joint, also covered with the 

 moidd in the pot; a moist warm air is maintained in the house 



