5S4 now TO MAKE THE FARM TAV. 



th« 6r«t tbrtHJ foct, another the second three, and so ou until the 



•M. rod. ki. Fig. 133 illustrates our meaning. These 



m nn planted four feet apart. Two are not allowed 



, ' hea until they reach the second trellis; then 



vith horizontal arms as before. For the third, 



,!th trellis, if it is desirable to have vines so high 



>hould be set four and eight feet from the trellis and 



brvugbi underground to the point on the trellis where they are 



It is better to run them through tile pipe, to pro- 



V .r taking root all the way. If they should do so, the 



growth would be likely to be so vigorous as to defy all attempts 



ai mining. By this nicthotl four vines, covering a space 



tvelvc by sixteen feet, have borne an average of eight hundred 



.ally. Tlie same method applies to arbor culture. 



• ».. .-..v.-r tlio top and sides of a grape arbor from 



Whore there is room for neither trellis nor arbor, there may 



-om to put down one or more stakes, to each of which 



a ^■"'•' • ' ' 1, and good results secured. Either the 



*''■•* "' ' ■ '.o grow two canes the first year, and com- 



Ijcaring the second year, or the stem gradually 



•^1 to eight or ten feet and side canes grown for fruit. 



- caac, when the cane bears the second year, at the 



" '. 8ca»on one of the canes is cut to two buds 



' •' -• y^^i and the other cane cut entirely away, 



«>d -a the next year. In the other case, the single 



can. ;he first season is cut back to say three feet, 



{Fxj. 182.) and the topmost bud allowed to grow the second 



»ea*on, all others being rubbed off; this cane is then cut back 



I- • -^ :•'::. three feet of the former cut. We have now a cane 



high: the two lowest buds, one on each side, are 



Wiowed to grow the third season, and one to bear fruit; these 



