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ON THE MANAGEMENT 
The caufes being thus affigned for the preference given to 
plants raifed by this method, and the advantages gained by 
this mode of practice thus fpecified, I fhall now proceed to 
give directions at large on this.fubjeCt. 
The firft care diould be to make choice of proper and well- 
ripened wood to form the cuttings, as it is abfurd to imagine 
that good plants can ever be produced from wood imperfeCtly 
ripened : Indeed the cafe here is exaClly fimilar, and may be 
confidered in the fame light, as between plants raifed from 
well-perfeCted feed, and plants growing from feed not well 
matured., 
Some perfons are of opinion, that cuttings taken from the 
lower part of the Vine are preferable to thofe that grow higher 
and at a diftance from the root. But for my part, I confefs I 
could never find any difference, fo as to induce me to give the 
preference to either, provided the wood was equally well ri- 
pened. But it generally happens that the bed: wood is pro- 
duced at the mod didant parts from the root, and efpecially in 
Vines trained againd rafters in the Hot-houfe, where there is 
generally a very didingulfhable difference between the top and 
the lower parts of the plants, in refpeCl to goodnefs. 
The new fhoots condantly appear nrd at the mod didant 
parts, and are generally more drong and vigorous, in propor- 
tion to their didance from the roots. I mention this particu- 
lar. 
