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Fourth Year — Training to a Stake, 



With the opening of spring the new cane must take the place of the old one 

 cut away, while another is being grown from tlie alternate spur. 



This renewal process is to be continued indennitely; or till, by tlie annual 

 lengthening of the spurs from which the canes are grown, they become incon- 

 veniently elongated, when they may be cut back nearly to the original base, 

 and new canes j)roduced from dormant buds. 



On good, rich soil, witli suflicient space between j)lants, two stakes may be 

 set; one on each side of tlie plant; and two fruiting canes grown, witli an 

 alternate for each. 



TKELLIS. 



How Constructed. 



A trellis is generally preferred by experienced and successful vineyardists. 

 The management of the vine upon a trellis when conducted upon a thorough 

 system, brings the fruiting process so completely under control that with care 

 and experience, the fruit may be properly distributed over the plant, and 

 superiority of cluster, and the highest quality of fruit secured. 



The trellis should be in place at the commencement of the third year, if not 

 earlier. It is best made of number ten or twelve wire, although strips of 

 timber answer perfectly, except for the frequent necessity of repair. Three 

 wires (or strips) are usually emplojed; the lowest from fourteen to eighteen 

 inches above the surface, and the two others a similar distance apart, making 

 the trellis about four and a half feet in height. We prefer a fourth wire, 

 especially for the more vigorous varieties; or, what may be preferable, a stout, 

 narrow strip, the same distance above the third wire, which, if of good 

 material and strongly nailed to each post, will serve to prevent any displace- 

 ment of the posts from the sagging or shrinkage of the wires. 



Andrew S. Fuller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in the Grape Culcurist, describes a 

 trellis with upright wires wliich are movable sidewise to adjust them to the 

 position of the canes, and which, for this and some other obvious reasons, 

 offers important advantages in the management of the growing canes. 



Second Year'' s Training to a Trellis. 



Up to the close of the second season's growth the treatment should be the 

 same as in the case of training to stakes, except that at the close of the first 

 year, the cane should have been cut back to a bud just below the lower wire of 

 the trellis, and if the vine be strong enough at the close of the second year, the 

 two canes should be cut back to a little less than half the distance between the 

 plants. 



The weaker plants having received an additional cutting back (as described 

 under the head of the second year), are to be attached to the trellis a year 

 later. 



lliird Yearns Training to a Trellis. 



Before growth commences in the spring, the two canes left at the last fall's 

 pruning, must be bent down to a horizontal and tied to the lower wire of the 

 trellis, extending in opposite directions. Mr. Fuller, however, says very truly: 

 **If the ends are fastened to the lower bar in a horizontal position at once, the 

 buds nearest to the base will usually push first, because the short bend in the 



