To Slake Cutto.'GS Geov.—l used to have a great deal of trouble to make currants and gooseberry cuttings or slip? grow, until I tried the following plan:—l boiled some potatoes until they were nearly done, and then stuck one on each slip and put it into the ground. Every slip sprouted and grew well ail summer, with but one or two exceptions. The idea of putting the boiled potatoes to the end of the cuttings was to furnish and keep moisture enough for them to grow, until the roots beeouuTlarge enough to gather this moist lire and substance from the soil. I never tried it on grape cuttings, but do not see any reason why il. would not do as well with grapes as with, anything else. — Cor. Wisconsin I'lmmr.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1841, 8 December 1869, Page 4
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