WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO THIN GRAPES. 



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see where and what to cut, and a nimble yet steady hand, so that the 

 berries retained may not be injured. Fig. 24 represents a small bunch 

 of the Black Hamburgh unthinned, and fig. 25 one of similar size 



Fig. 24. SMALL CLUSTER OF GRAPES BEFORE THINNING. 



after being properly thinned. In the former example there were one 

 hundred and thirty-two berries, and in the second there were, before 

 they were cut out, one-hundred and twenty-four berries, but these have 

 been reduced by the scissors to sixty-four about one-half. This may 

 be taken as a fair average of the thinning required for ordinary well 

 set Black Hamburgh Grapes. Of course, the number retained should 



