330 TRELLISES USED ON KELLY'S ISLAND. 



will grow the next summer. These canes are 

 then cut back to two eyes, and each eye may be 

 allowed to bear one or more bunches of fruit, and 

 produce a cane of about three feet in length. Care 

 should be taken that the shoots are of equal length, 

 as if one gains the ascendancy it will rob the others. 

 Systems to he 2yi'actised where there is no need of 

 winter protection. The training of vines upon Kelly's 

 Island, Ohio, seems to be more or less peculiar 

 to the locality, and as few failures have occurred, it 

 is well to investigate it. Mr. George C. Hunting- 

 ton, one of the vignerons of that island, gives a 

 description of the trellises used. They are con- 

 structed of posts set in the ground, eighteen feet 

 distant in the lines ; on these is stretched No. 9 

 annealed iron wire, weighing about one pound per 

 rod, and therefore, if the rows are eight feet distant, 

 requiring about one thousand pounds for the acre. 

 In placing it a cylinder is used of the proper size 

 to take a coil of wire. This is set upon a horse, 

 like a grindstone, when it uncoils much smoother, 

 and with less twist than if laid fiat upon the ground. 

 It has been found that the strain of the whole trellis 

 comes upon the posts standing at each end, where 

 the intermediate ones are bored to admit the wire 

 through them, but by straining each length as the 

 work proceeds, and fastening it with a staple driven 

 hard, the strain is more equally distributed. Three 

 lines of wire arc made to each trellis. The end 



