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ON THE 
MANAGEMENT 
A cutting of this fort will flrike freely, either with or with- 
out an artificial heat } a temperate hot-bed heat will, however, 
not only facilitate its firiking with greater freedom and vigor, 
but will alfo greatly accelerate the growth of the plant. 
There feems to be a great fuperfluity of wood in a cutting of 
the above defcription ; for when it is deep planted, the lower 
eyes in general decay ^ and, if planted fhallow, the part above 
ground commonly dies down to the eye, even with or imme- 
diately under the furface. 
In this place it will not be Improper to obferve, that various 
other plants, as well as the Vine, admit of being propagated 
by layers and cuttings, and that it is allowed that cuttings are 
generally preferable to layers, and that plants, raifed from 
fmall cuttings, commonly make the befl; plants. The caufe 
feems obvious, viz. that it appears injurious to the new plant, 
in proportion as it partakes too abundantly of its original or 
the mother plant. Hence it is evident, that the lefs the mat- 
ter that forms the rudiment of the new plant, the better. In- 
deed this theory is evinced by practice, for it is well known, 
that thofe plants raifed from feed, which have the fmalleft be- 
ginning, always make better plants, and are greatly preferable 
to thofe of the fame fpecies, which are raifed either by cuttings 
or layers. 
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