Laurel Cooley, age 10, of Remsen, New York, for her question:

How do they get plants from seedless grapes?

There are several ways to get new plants from a vine that bears seedless grapes. Some people are clever at getting new plants to grow from cuttings. Others pin their hopes on grafting, which is harder to do. A cutting may be a smallish twig, sliced from the seedless vine. Or it may be a small slice taken from the base of the vine with a section of the root attached. Twig cuttings should be kept in moist sand through the winter and planted in pots to grow roots in the spring. Root cuttings can be potted through the winter and set outdoors in the spring.

Crafters use a well rooted vine and a few twigs from a seedless vine. The stem of the rooted vine is cut off, fairly close to the ground. The twigs are sliced and placed, just so, against the cut vine and sealed, also just so, into place. When the grafted twigs grow, their boughs will bear seedless grapes.