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agalnil the walls, or preferred into the Hct-houfe. Hence 
you fee it will be proper to keep the plants until they are three 
or four years old, before you difpofe of them either on the 
wall or in the Hot-houfe ; and then, if they be managed as 
will be hereafter directed, they will produce the fruit you like 
and approve, and with the greatefi; certainty. 
Having difpatched tliis new method of railing the Vine from 
feed, I fliall next beg leave to fuggeft a few hints on the fubjeft 
of the cuflomary method of propagating this plant, and (hall 
afterwards endeavour to lay down a new and improved method 
of railing vine plants by cuttings. 
The general method of propagating the Vine is, either by 
layers or cuttings. The Vine is a free-llriking plant, therefore 
young plants may be obtained each way without much diffi- 
culty. 
When the Vine is intended to be propagated by a layer, a 
ffioot that will eafily bend to the ground is generally chofen 
for the purpofe. After making the ground light and line with 
the fpade, the ffioot ffiould be fallened by a fmall hooked Hick 
at about fix inches below its furface. If a little light freffi 
foil, with a mixture of pond mud, were well clofed about the 
bottom of the layer, it will facilitate its flriking. 
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