American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-04-08
From the american Farmer.
GRAPE VINES.
NEW METHOD OF PRoPAeArrNe.

NEW METHOD OF PhOPAGAIINCs
Eatract to the Editor, dated Georgetown Pos
Office, 5th March, 1928.
I have broken open this letter to give you piec,
Of Information that think invaluable-Mr. Hiel
Peck, who has ever since have known him, beer
an excellent horticulturst, has just informed me
that German taught him to plant the cuttings Of
grape vines, in the following manner. Take q
cutting of three eyes, and make place by ramoy-
ing the earth, the same you would to plant Indian
corn in hill and lay in two cuttings, ilat at the
bottom, of three eyes each, and cover them in the
same manner, as you would corn; and out OF a con
siderable number that he planted in border scar
cely one failed. His Information he got from a
German who informed him, it was the manner in
which his father planted the cuttings
If three eyes will answer, can see no reason
why two may not do as well. As | have sold a
considerable number OF cuttings this season, and
being anxious that those who purchased, should
succeed in their attempt at propagating the vine,
will thank you to recommend TO the different
newspapers, TO give this publicity. III it succeeds,
a cutting of or eyes or buds, will make two
and can see no reason why they may not grow,
better than in any other way. shall try it this
season by planting one cutting in the usual way,
and another in this manner, in the same place; il
they both grow, one may be removed.
JOHN ALBUM.
From Sketch Of the Character of the late ARcH1
BALD Henderson,, Esq. an eminent Lawyer Of
North Carolina, published in the HIsboro'
Recorder,) we make the following extract
There was one trait in Mr.. Henderson's manner
Of conducting a cause in court, which greatly adj
mlred: 1t was his manner OF examining witnesses.
He lcaS polite and decorOus to them ast0 the court
He asked no unnecessary questions; and every
witness that came III court, felt a confidence that
rom him he should receive no iRSOleHt non inper-
theRt treatment. lie dlslked excessively the never
ending lnteTrogatorIes that are frequently put to
witnesses, and he disliked still more the noisy and
ooisterous manner in which these interrogatores
are sometimes put. He said this manner was not
only undignihcd and had tendency to lessen the
respect OF the people Tor their courts, but it often
prevented the course OF justice, by intmdatng wit
Iesses, and hereby either suppressng material facts
u giving them an improper colourng.
AS he advanced IN life, he seemed more and more
anxious that the latcS should be interpreted and
administered By the rules Of common sense. He,
q great degree, lost his reverence for artificial
ules. He said the laws were made for the people l
md they should b. interpreted and administered by
ules which they undo stood, wherever it was
that common sense belonged to the
people In higher degree than to learned men andl
hat to interpret laws by rules which were at vari-
nee with the rules OF common sense, necessarily
essened the respect ofthe people, inducing them
o believe that courts and awyers contrived unne-l
gioe mysteries in the science, merely for the pur
ose OF supporting the profession Of lawyers. Hell
aid, the rules of pedanry did not suit this country
or This age; that common sense had acquired /
omlnion liz politics and eligion, and was fast ac
uiring an absolute oninion in the law; that judges
nd lawyers should have the independence and mag
ananity to strip off the veil of mystery from every
ranch OF the law, and out all the remains OF al
idiculous Pedantry; simplify the science and make
Ineligible far as possibe to the understanding
# the common people,"