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feet apart instead of two, and brought to the 

 wall in the manner above described till the last 

 bedding is reached, when two canes are bedded 

 instead of one, and at an angle, as seen in the 

 engraving. The ends are turned up, and one 

 cane grown on each for stocks. 



Still another method may be pursued, which 

 will be found very useful where the number of 

 stocks required is so great as to make very close 

 planting indispensable. Let us suppose we have 

 a building so high and narrow as to require the 

 stocks to be one foot apart in order to famish 

 the necessary number of tiers of arms. In this 

 case proceed as follows : six feet from the build 

 ing plant a row of vines two feet apart ; six 

 feet in front of these, or twelve feet from the 

 building, plant another row of vines two feet 

 apart. The vines in these two rows must alter 

 nate each other in the line of direction to the 

 building, so that the vines in the outer row, 

 when bedded, will come between the vines in 

 the first row. The first, or inner row, must be 

 bedded to the building. The second row must 

 be bedded to within five or six inches of the 

 line where the first row was planted. At this 

 point grow one good cane on each, and in the 

 fall prune it about six feet long. In the 



