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 difficulty, always shew vigour of vegetation, they should, therefore, be planted in the least fertile part of the soil; and the bottom part of the slope, or the richest part, should be appropriated to those which are more valuable for the quality, than the quantity of their produce.

It will thus be necessary, that the cuttings of each variety should be tied up separately, and marked.

The time of planting is different, in different climates. In the warmer climates, if this operation is deferred till spring, it frequently happens, that the young plant has not time to acquire strength to resist the heats of summer, while the temperature of the atmosphere, besides, seldom falls so low, as altogether to stop vegetation; and there is generally established, at the extremity of the plant, a sort of movement, which, if it does not give birth to apparent roots, so disposes the plant, nevertheless, to produce them, that they burst forth spontaneously in the first of the fine weather.

In colder climates, it is otherwise, and to plant before the winter, would be to risk the success of the plantation. The humidity of the soil would tend to rot that part of the plant below the surface; and the two eyes left above, would frequently be so much injured, as to be incapable of developing their buds.