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ting with the eye above the ground. So soon as this is done, I cover over 
with four inches of loose stable litter and it so remains until spring. My 
cuttings are planted about eighteen inches apart in the rows. 
I do not know that this plan has any advantage over that of bringing the 
cuttings in bundles for the winter and planting in the spring. But as it 
seems to me it is much more convenient. The soil is in a finer state. There 
is more spare time than in the spring, and while the cuttings are in your 
hand it makes but one trouble to plant them. Having always pursued this 
method I cannot draw any comparison between the success that attends it 
and that of spring planting. But I have no reason to complain. I know 
that it is customary in milder latitudes to plant out-cuttings in the spring. For 
them, where they give no protection, their plan seems best, but for us where 
we must give protection, I think the fall planting equally good. But a ques¬ 
tion of some interest may be raised here, whether the cuttings of all varie¬ 
ties can be successfully trusted to this mode of treatment. So far as I know, 
they can, though there is a different amount of success attending the differ¬ 
ent varieties of vines. I shall, however, be better able to meet such a query 
another year, as I have planted just fifty varieties of cuttings last fall. The 
success seems to me to depend rather upon the character of the soil and 
protection than upon the vine itself. The great desideratum being a light 
and sandy soil. 
Plantmg .—I prefer to plant in the fall, and for many reasons I would 
recommend fall planting in preference to planting in the spring. To those 
not conversant with vines, I would recommend the purchasing of what are 
called two-year old vines, and would say to them by way of caution, that if 
occasionally they find a vine is not doing well the first year—for instance, 
that it fs mildewed to some extent, or does not make a vigorous growth as 
promised by its habit or by the nursery man—they are not to pluck it out, as 
I have been accustomed to do, the first year, and throw it away. Vines are 
subject to accident, and in such a case, if the vine is of a valuable or rare 
variety, I would say, have patience with it another year, and very generally 
you will find your patience rewarded with success. It was my rule for sev¬ 
eral years, on finding that a young vine planted in the fall or spring had not 
made a pretty good growth and ripened a fair share of wood by the follow¬ 
ing fall, to throw it out as worthless or too tender for this climate. Such a 
practice, as experience has taught me, is injudicious and determines nothing. 
I now invariably give a two years’ trial, and have been rewarded by raising 
some of the finest and best vines in my garden. 
The operation of planting, though one of such common practice and ap¬ 
parently so simple in its performance, is, in reality, an art that few possess. 
Probably one half of the failures in the growing of vines arises from the 
careless and ignorant manner of planting. How common a thing it is to hear 
one man declare that almost everything he plants fails to grow, while another 
with equal truth will report that everything he plants is sure to grow. Now 
s there any accident in the matter in either case ? It is only a case of ob 
