HASTENING THE MATURITY OF THE GRAPE. 



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results. It must not be done in. that petty timid 

 manner hinted at by a contemporary. There must be 

 a ring of bark perfectly removed ; the cuts being 

 made boldly down to the very young wood, or albur 

 num, and every particle of bark, inner and outer, 

 must be removed between the cuts. (See Fig. 63.) 



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Fig. 63. 



This drawing represents, faithfully, the rung part 

 of a rod at the close of autumn, and shows how the 

 removal of the band of bark checked the return of the 

 sap, and how, in consequence, the rod above the 



