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ON THE MANAGEMENT 
this method, as I have happily experienced, are greatly pre- 
ferable to thofe raifed by cuttings in the common way, as they 
have 
“ of it than I have ; for I expe£l it will be a fortnight yet at leaft before it 
“ blofToms. The method of planting cuttings in the tan, with a fingle 
“ eye to them, is our own. I have never feen nor heard of its being ufed 
“ by any body elfe, except thofe to whom my brother and felf have recom- 
“ mended it : It may, however, not improbably have occurred to others 
“ who may have pradtifed it, as well as ourfelves. What firft fuggefted it 
“ to us to try it, was, that we found cuttings, with two or three eyes to 
“ them, planted in the common way, which w'as the way we firft raifed them 
“ in pots of earth, and plunged into the tan, one eye being left above the 
“ earth, were not only troublefome from their great length, but that the 
“ eye above ground either dried up entirely, or fhot weakly at beft, and alfo 
“ often died away again afterwards, whilft the buds that were covered with 
“ earth got up and throve much better. This feemed to fay, let the bud 
“ intended to grow be covered. We alfo obferved, that few or no roots fhot 
“ from any part but the fartheft or loweft extremity of the cutting, fo that 
“ all the intermediate parts feemed to be of little or no ufe, provided the roots 
“ would fhoot equally well from the extremity, when fhortened to one eye 
“only; and to be fatisfied that the joint, immediately below the eye, is 
“ defirous of throwing out roots for the ufe of that eye, one need only look 
“ at the roots which are thrown out in feveral parts of the Vines that are 
“ growing vigoroufly in a Hot-houfe, which, very manifefrly, I think, 
“ fhew that they belong to the eye, or branch proceeding from the eye, im- 
“ mediately next above them. All thefe together made us think it very 
“ likely that the method we now ufe would fucceed, and we had already 
“ got into the way of planting the cuttings in the tan firft, rather than in 
“ pots of earth from the beginning, finding, by experience, as well as learn- 
“ ing from others, that moft things would begin to ftrike much more rca- 
“ dily, as well as more certainly and kindly in that manner, than the other. 
“ The 
