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VAKIOUS WAYS OF PLANTING VINES. 



"VA^iile I have planted vines in nearly every possible 

 way, and have found them all succeed well, at the same 

 time there are some methods preferable to others, and 

 I can strongly recommend the following, from my own 

 experience of it. It is probably in its details new, but 

 it only requires to be described to commend itself to all 

 who have any knowledge of such matters. I had a 

 large house to plant, chiefly with Muscats, in April 1864. 

 I had a stock of one-year-old plants in 8 -inch pots by 

 me; I cut the rods back to 4 feet in February, and 

 allowed them to stand in a cold peach-house till the 

 13th of April, when the border was ready for their 

 being planted ; I shook all the earth from their roots, 

 and spread them out on the soil of the border, one vine 

 to each rafter, and 6 feet apart, covered the roots with 

 6 inches of soil, and gave the whole a good watering 

 with water at a temperature of 150°, and covered the 

 surface with an inch of dry soil, to prevent, to some 

 extent, the escape of the heat communicated to the 

 border by the warm water. The vines were just burst- 

 ing their buds when planted, and instead of adopting 

 the usual practice of stopping, or rubbing off all the 

 buds but one or two, I allowed all to grow, and tied 

 them carefully to the wires ; by this means I had in 

 some instances ten rods to one vine, all of which, during 

 the season, ran to the top of the house, and partly down 

 the back wall, a distance of 30 feet, and many of these 

 rods were as strong as ever I had previously seen a 

 single rod from a vine the first year it was planted. In 

 January 1865, when they were cut down, the whole 



