Take your vines, in a pail with water, or wrapped in a wet cloth, from the place where they were heled-in,* to the holes; […] / *On receiving your vines from the nursery, they should be taken out of the box, without delay, and heled-in, which is done as follows: In a dry and well protected situation, a trench is made in the soil […] The plants are then set thickly together in the trench […] and soil taken from [another trench] is thrown into the first, covering the roots carefully,
1895, Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of American Grape Vines, by the Bush & Son & Meissner firm of vinegrowers in Bushberg, Mo., page 43