OF THE VINE. 
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It may be unneceflary here to go through the common pro- 
cefs of railing Vine plants by cuttings of the foregoing defcrip- 
tion, as I propofe to offer a more advantageous method of pro- 
pagating the Vine from only a lingle eye, and about three 
inches and an half of the lad: year’s wood”: Plants raifed by 
this 
This mode of propagating the Vine from a Tingle eye firft occurred to my 
very worthy and learned friend the Rev. Mr, Michell, who has been To obliging 
as to tranfmit to me the following curious and important account of the fuccefs 
of this method ; 
Sir, 
“ I have received two letters from you nnce I wrote laft ; the former not re- 
“ quiring any immediate anfwer, I poftponed writing till I could give you 
“ a fliort account of the fuccefs of fome Vines that were planted cuttings 
“ inourway, the end of December, 1775, and beginning of January, 1776, 
“ fo that they have had only one year’s growth before this fpring. One of 
“ them, which came to us for the white Sweetwater, but of which I have 
“ fome doubts whether it may not turn out the white Mufcadine, has now no 
“ lefs than fixteen bunches upon it, and I might fay feventeen, if I would 
“ reckon every thing. The Vine comes out very ftrong and vigorous, and 
“ feems able to ripen them all. The uppermoft bud has brought out four 
“ bunches, the fecond four bunches, and the third three bunches j and the 
“ loweft hunch upon each of thefe is a full bunch ; nor do any of them 
“ feem weaker than one might have expefled upon a Vine of feveral years 
“ old. Another Vine, which is the Syrian, and was a cutting planted in 
“ the bark the 9th of January, 1776, has two bunches upon it, one only 
“ upon a branch ; the bigger of thefe has its ftalk at about half an inch or an 
“ inch from the branch, as tnick as a moderate goofe quill, fo that it feems 
“ to be providing for a large bunch ; but it is not expanded far enough yet 
“ to form an exad judgment of it, unlefs to a perfon who had feen more 
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