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other respects when understood, an important 

 one being the facility they afford for replacing 

 an arm without loss of fruit. The permanent 

 arm, in place of the annual renewal, yields a 

 better quality of fruit, which should be con 

 sidered of some importance, whether for wine 

 or the table. 



In this connection we introduce Figs. 50, 51, 

 the most beautiful and perfect portraits of the 

 kind ever presented to the public. The vine on 

 the left is ihelona; that on the right is the 

 Delaware, the characteristics of each being finely 

 shown. The lower leaves have been removed 

 from one cane of each, to show the fruit. 



This system may be used with a double tier 

 of arms, as shown in Fig. 52. In this case, the 

 vines must be planted at equal distances, and 

 the stocks buried and brought up together as 

 shown by the shaded lines in Fig. 53, which is 

 an example of the renewal system, which the 

 reader can study till we find time to explain it. 

 Upright Stock with Alternate Spurs. This 

 is a neat and pretty mode of growing the 

 vine for the amateur and the garden. It has 

 a look of simplicity about it which will 

 commend it to many. The reader perhaps 

 thinks he has only to grow an upright 



