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PROPAGATING VINES. 
buried about an inch or two in the pots, in the course of coiling, by 
the time the best eye appears above the soil, as strong as the bud of 
a fine asparagus! The whole coils beneath will be completely occu¬ 
pied with young active roots; and by the time the shoots are four 
feet long, the pot will be a perfect mat of those eager feeders. Then 
shift and top the shoot and never leave on any laterals; plunge as 
before into a fine bottom heat; and encourage the main topmost eye 
alone to push; and lead it on, but without laterals, till it is again four 
feet long; when, if the pot is full of roots, shift, top it as before; and 
encourage again the uppermost eye only to start; and by the time it 
is another four feet, if not over-potted before, it will require a third 
shifting. If required, you may stop at every four feet, five or six 
times; but three shiftings will be found enough for the season ; and 
you had best not suffer it to reach above from twelve to twenty feet 
of clear bearing wood. At the end of the season, you will have shoots 
one inch and a half diameter, and with fine bold eyes, and full of line 
set bunches for the next season ! 
You will readily perceive, that, by such an early and abundant 
accumulation of young vigorous roots, and by such a top and bottom 
management, it is no extraordinary miracle to have every cutting a 
fruit bearing shoot atone season’s growth ; and by a proportional coil 
of large older wood, it will be equally obvious to you how readily 
such will produce a fine crop the first season ! 
I expect to have the pleasure of a visit from you soon, when I 
fancy you will be gratified as well as satisfied with its success, and 
extraordinary simplicity. I think you must be well aware of its 
great importance to the world; and if ever such a method had been 
previously adopted, it would have been noticed long ere this ; and its 
importance would have caused it to be generally adopted. As such 
has not been the case, I think it must be allowed to originate from 
me. 
The extraordinary progress of my grapes upon the coiled vines, 
placed in a bottom heat, astonishes every one. In another season, 
when I have got my wood early ripened, I intend to start some in 
October, and to have plenty of fine ripe grapes by the middle of 
February. I have some at this time half grown, the branch being 
only cut from the vine, and placed in bottom heat 20th of Novem¬ 
ber ! “ Can such things be !” yes, easily and simply so. I intend 
to keep some coders as late as the middle or end of July, before 
they are excited, and then to place them in a bottom heat. The 
fruit, by doing so, will be perfectly ripe before the dull weather of 
autumn sets in, but not so with the wood ; by which circumstance they 
