Show PLANTS PROM CUTTINGS grape vines and berry bushes easily every land owner can easily secure a alca lot of grape vines and caurant bushes with only a little labor they are grown commercially merci ally from cuttings 0 the present sea sons growth all that Is necessary Is to put the ripened wood la the ground where it will start t ato W bunch of cuttings and form a plant which will be suitable to transplant one or two years later grape cuttings are made with either two or abrea buds well ripened short jointed wood should be selected make the A grape cutting lower cut squarely across and alosa under bud the upper cut slanting add an inch or two above the bud in this way the cuttings can be planted right side up currant cuttings are made six or eight inches long in tha same manner but they contain several buds cuttings may be tied in bundles with the lower ends even and burled in moist band over winter the ends will callous over and they will be welt set ready to put out roots as soon as planted in the spring they can also be planted in the open ground as soon as made the cut tings should be placed somewhat slanting in rich mellow soli several inches deep and covered to the top bud A slight mulch of coarse manure when the ground freezes will help to protect them from being thrown up by the alternate freezing and thawing plant them four to six inches apart in the row and the rows 2 to three feet in one or two years they will make fine handsome plants of the variety from which the cuttings are taken |