ON THE MANAGEMENT 
The ground iliouJd be well clofed to the layer ; the furface 
fliould be made fmooth, and formed into a kind of bafon, after 
which a little very rotten dung muft be laid therein in the 
manner of mulching. 
The layer will ftrike freely, either with or without an 
incifion being made at the bottom ; early fpring, before 
the rifing of the fap, is the moil eligible feafon for the per- 
formance of this bulinefs, becaufe the £hoot would be liable to 
bleed at the wounded part, as foon as the fap begins to rife. 
During fummer, if the weather prove dry, frequent water- 
ings fhould be given, for it is abfolutely necelfary to keep the 
ground in a moift ftate during that period. The new plant 
will acquire fufficient roots in the courfe of the fummer, to 
admit of its being taken off from the mother plant in the au- 
tumn, and this fliould be done as foon as the leaf has fallen. 
Great care muft be taken to preferve the roots of the new plant 
uninjured through the fucceeding winter, therefore it will be 
proper to keep the plant, during that feafon, in a guarded 
fituation, where it may be well fecured and protected from 
froft, as its future fuccefs, in a great meafure, depends on the 
prefervation of its firft fibres or roots. 
Vines are fometimes laid in pots with great advantage. The 
moft eligible method of performing the operation is, by con- 
ducting 
