Archive image from page 61 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 28 much depth of soil without being destroyed, and they can not endure the absence of moisture, which they must often incur when near the surface, without being destroyed. To have the border become completely and uniformly occupied with roots, fiber, and rootlets, from its surface to its depth, the beginning of growth, after tr
Archive image from page 61 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 28 much depth of soil without being destroyed, and they can not endure the absence of moisture, which they must often incur when near the surface, without being destroyed. To have the border become completely and uniformly occupied with roots, fiber, and rootlets, from its surface to its depth, the beginning of growth, after transplanting, must be at some distance from the surface, so that the center, from which all the roots spring, may be toward the middle of the perpendicular measurement of the border, or below it when worked only of moderate depth. Instead of placing the axis of the vine, which we have just planted, at four or six inches from the surface, a temporary surface is made, from six to ten inches below the level of the border, to which the vine bears the same relation in planting, as it has been made to sustain, by the operation just described, to the actual level of the border. The excavation being made to whatever depth may be fixed upon, which will depend upon the size of the plant in some degree, as well as upon the circumstances of the border, and from eighteen inches to two feet in diameter in each direction, the planting is to be done precisely as before directed, leaving from six to ten inches of the excava- tion unfilled, and keeping it clear to that depth during the growing-season. This little pit furnishes the shelter which is so important in the vineyard, especially where it would be rarely given otherwise ; and the temporary surface being below the action of the drying winds, is easily kept from an injurious degree of drought. If watering becomes necessary, there will not be need of frequent repetition, and the quantity required to be effective will be very small, and it mu
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