Archive image from page 89 of Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines. Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines with wholesale and retail price-lists for 1864, describing and exhibiting the relative importance of all our valuable native vines descriptivecatal1864cwgr Year: 1864 56 In estimating the quality of a plant, the proper inquiry is not, How large is it? but, In how long a time was it acquiring its size ? We will suppose a plant of three years to have only the size of a plant of one year. That of one year, if well grown and perfect, would be valuable, and that of three years worthless; first, b
Archive image from page 89 of Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines. Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines with wholesale and retail price-lists for 1864, describing and exhibiting the relative importance of all our valuable native vines descriptivecatal1864cwgr Year: 1864 56 In estimating the quality of a plant, the proper inquiry is not, How large is it? but, In how long a time was it acquiring its size ? We will suppose a plant of three years to have only the size of a plant of one year. That of one year, if well grown and perfect, would be valuable, and that of three years worthless; first, because that of three years must have been damaged by defective treatment; second, because its roots must have become quite destitute of fibers, except at their extremities, and no art can restore them. We have remarked, 'the vine never naturally feeds twice in the same place.' From this comes the need of shortening the roots, or pruning them, as well as the shoots, at planting, and the largest often the most severely. When strong roots of one year are cut back, they readily send out numerous fibers from the cut ends, which have a tendency to form short-jointed, bearing wood that will not be Impatient of restraint. Hence we see the need of transplanting and cutting back the roots of such vigorous vines as are not set in place for fruiting at one year of age. In case of cuttings, this is generally done by the winter frost, and the vine becomes reduced to the state of a cutting, nearly, with the difference that surface-wood has become root-wood, and shoots readily. We have said it is very advantageous to have the plants in the fall, near the place where they are to be set in the spring, but they are sometimes damaged by improper treatment during winter. I subjoin a plan by which all hardy trees and vines may be kept without fear of injury. It is well known and practiced by nurserymen under the name of ' heeling in,' but not always properly carried out by the uninitiated. A very
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