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OPKN AIR GRAPE CULTURE. 



During the summer I inspect the vines regularly 

 every morning ; seeing that the ends of my leaders 



Fig. 82. 



are in their proper places, and not obstructed ; pick 

 ing off tendrils and stopping the laterals above the 



Fig. 83. 



first leaf, on my next year s bearing wood, tying 

 down fruit spurs carefully, and stopping any shoot 

 that may have sprung from the ends of them; as 



