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strong one year old plants or two year old plants. The vines 

 should be purchased of one of the large reliable firms in the 

 grape regions of New York. The rows should be set 8 feet 

 apart, with the vines 6 to 8 feet apart in the row^s. I prefer 

 early spring planting. Groimd bone, or some other slow 

 acting fertilizer, may be dug in where the vines are set. For 

 the first two years light posts, with one of two wires, may be 

 used, after that substantial posts will be needed with two to 

 four wires. 

 PRUNING. 



The first year the vines should be cut- back to two buds. 

 These should be allowed to grow as long as they will. The 

 next year the vines may be cut the height of the lower wire. 

 &.nd two shoots again be allowed to grow, breaking the others 

 ofi: soon after they start. The object of this severe pruning 

 is to get a strong root sj'stem established, not allowing much 

 of the strength of the vine to go to unnecessary top. The 

 third year the best cane may be left 3 to 6 feet long, accord- 

 ing to the strength of the vine. To get a good crop of large 

 clusters, strong canes of well ripened v\^ood are needed, the 

 fruit being grown only from the Avood of the previous year's 

 growth. To obtain such, various methods are used. Prob- 

 ably the best way is to have one cane on the trellis run from 

 that vine to the next, so that, when the vines are in place on 

 the trellis, there will be on one of the wires a continuous 

 line of bearing wood and on a wire underneath this, two 

 canes for the next year's bearing may be grown, the best 

 one to be used for the next year's fruiting. These shoots 

 may be pinched off the latter part of the season, when long 

 enough, and their side shoots kept back, so they will not 

 grow very strong. The idea being to have the cane and 

 buds for next year's bearing as strong as possible. This 

 method was used for many years by Dr. Fisher of Fitchburg. 

 Used and recommended by Prof. Maynard when at the Col- 

 lege at Amherst. Is used by Mr. Hayward of Ashby. Any 

 one who has seen his grapes at exhibitions can see he has 

 some way for growing very fine bunches. Another good 



