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about six inches apart on posts set about fifteen feet apart in the row. 

 Poultry wire may be used in the same way. vStill another plan involves 

 the use of two stakes driven into the ground about eighteen inches apart 

 and carrying hoops encircling the plant at ever}'- twelve inches. 



Pole beans may be wound about poles nine feet tall, to which they will hold 

 tightly. Beans may also be grown on a trellis made as follows : Place a post at 

 each end of the row. Stretch one wire nine inches from the ground between 

 the two posts and another near the top of the posts. Between these wires 

 weave strings, V- or X-fashion. The beans should be encouraged to 



Fig. i66. — Traiuino tomatoes to a sinsje stem 



climb up these strings. In place of the two methods chicken wire may be 

 used, especially the five- or six-foot widths. 



Peas may bo held up with brush, or they may be supported by the aid 

 of wires or poultry netting. Melons, squashes, and cucumbers may be 

 trained to grow over a trellis made of wood, perhaps A-shaped or perhaps 

 overhead. They may be trained on wires similarly to tomatoes or in 

 other ways. 



PRUNING 



In many cases it is an advantage to prune vegetable plants, especially 

 if they are to be trained or staked. Some growers pinch back tomatoes 

 by taking out all the lateral growths that are found at the bases of the 



