THE TAEMER’s manual. 
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Fruit-Trees, Vines, and Shrubbery, 
MARCH AND APRIL. 
Cut and set all such fruit as you wish to propagate 
by the slip; such as currants, goosberries, raspber- 
ries, &c. Plant out such fruit-trees as you wish to 
remove, together with your grape-vines, particularly 
such as* you have propagated from your standing 
vines. Prune your currants,' goosberries, raspberries, 
&c. remove all dead stalks, and support your bushes 
by frames. 
MAY. 
Set by grafting such cions asyou may have collect- 
ed in February ; choose for this purpose the most thrif- 
ty stocks, if you expect good success ; place two 
cions in each stock ; but do not suffer more than one 
to grow and come forward. Bend down such 
branches of your grape-vines as you can bring to the 
ground ; open a small trench 5 or 6 inches in length, 
place in it your vine, (leaving the growing end open 
to the air,) then cover over the vine with rich mould;^^ 
and cover it with a stone ; this will both steady your*^ 
vine and keep it moist. In this position it will take 
root in summer ; and in autumn, or winter, it may be 
separated from the standing vine, and in March, or 
April following, be removed to such a place as you 
may choose. This is the surest and easiest way of 
propagating the grape. 
