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earth should be pressed upon them with the foot, 
(always careful not to injure nor touch the eye) and 
other loose earth should then be drawn over them, 
a little higher than the adjoining ground, lest the 
rain, settling upon them, should cause them to de¬ 
cay, If planted in the fall, the shoot must be pre¬ 
served from the wintry cold, by straw or hay, well 
littered, or by course light stable manure. Even, 
in the spring, the bud, or eye, near the surface, 
should also be slightly covered over with loose soil, 
which will preserve it from nocturnal frosts, in the 
early part of the spring, and will not be unfavorable 
to its receiving the warmth of the sun during the 
day. 
Remember to insert the stake, on which the 
shoot is to be trained, at its north end, so that the 
bud may be exposed as much as possible to the 
warmth of the sun. Now the bud will soon^ begin 
to evolve, and put forth shoots. But, though the 
upper eye be calculated on for training, and only 
one shoot be wanted for that purpose, it is best to 
suffer all that appear (for frequently they spring 
from underneath the ground) to grow for a certain 
time, in order to give you an opportunity of select- 
Sometirjfles, indeed^ the shooting does not take place till the 
sun has acquired great power. In this case you must, for a time, 
cover the tender germ, with a leaf Irom ihe fierceness of his rays. 
The leaf should, as you must know, be taken off during the night, 
and be gradually discontinued during the day, til! the shoot be of 
sufficient strength to endure the summer heats. 
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