118 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



The fame rules for watering, tranfpl anting, fhifting, &c. 

 are to be obferved here as for Seedlings. 



A method very frequently praclifed by nurferymen and gar- 

 deners, when they wilh to have their plants fit for fale the 

 fame year, is to plant them in pots, and place them in the 

 hot-houfe, among the tan, on the flues, or round the curbs 

 of the pit. I faw this method pradtifed laft year, with great 

 fuccefs, by MerTrs. Lee and Kennedy, in their hot-houfe at 

 the Vineyard, Hammerfmith. 



They may be raifed in this manner, either planting them 

 fingly in fmall pots, or feveral in a pot, according to its fize, 

 tranfplanting them feparately when they have taken root. In 

 proceeding thus, it will be neceffary to have a hot-bed ready, 

 to plunge the pots in as foon as they are tranfplanted. By this 

 means you will forward their growth very much, and before 

 Autumn have them fit for fale. 



Vines are alto propagated by layers in the following 

 manner. 



They may be propagated by ftools in the open quarters, in 

 the fame manner as nurferymen propagate foreft-trees and 

 fhrubs ; but the bed way is to take layers from walls or pa- 

 lings, obferving to train the fhoots at full length during the 

 Summer. Then, about the month of February, take fome 

 of the fined and ftrongeft fhoots, and lay them acrofs the 

 foot-path into pots (twenty-fours or fixteens) filled with 

 frefh mould, and plunged in the ground about two inches 

 below the furface ; at the fame time making an incifion or 

 two in the old wood, or giving it a twift juft below a joint : 

 they will generally take without notching or tvvifting ; yet, 

 as it is the furer way, I would advife it to be done. (Introdu- 

 cing the fhoots through the bottom of the pots is now laid 



afide, 



