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apart for a double tier of arms ; each vine will 

 then have about seven feet of horizontal arm, or 

 about three feet six inches on each side of the 

 stock. In this case, the arms may be laid 

 down from a third to half their length, or from 

 fourteen to twenty-one inches. There will, how 

 ever, be here and there canes not stout enough 

 to lay down as much as one foot. From such 

 vines as may have three canes, the middle one 

 must be cut through the old wood below the 

 cross mark in Fig. 26, which will make the 

 vine like Fig. 25 ; the canes must be cut at A, 

 or from fourteen to twenty inches long. The 

 canes are now to be placed in a horizontal posi 

 tion, and tied there, as shown in Fig. 27. The 



Fig. 27. 



dotted lines show where the upright canes will 

 grow from the upper buds. If all the lower 

 buds, a, are rubbed off, the upper ones will 

 place the spurs at about the proper distance 



