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posts have a brace inside to support them. A better 

 and more permanent, although more expensive 

 method of sustaining the posts, is to fix a stone 

 under ground outside the end-post, with a rod 

 reaching from it to the top of the former, which is 

 tightened at pleasure by means of a coupling iron. 

 Figure (a) represents this, and (b) the old methods. 



Mr. Huntington says that the plan of training is 

 one of three canes in the form of a fan. These are 

 cut back after bearing, to single eyes, which produce 

 others, while the young canes that have been made 

 at the same time are retained for fruiting the next 

 year. 



Plan practised in Ohio. This is thus described by 

 Mr. Buchanan, in Elliott's American Fruit Grower's 

 Guide. " In the spring " (at planting) " cut the 

 young vine down to a single eye at first ; if two are 

 left for greater safety, take off one afterwards, drive 

 a stake six or seven feet long firmly to each plant. 

 Locust or cedar is preferred, but oak or black wal- 

 nut, charred at the end, or coated with coal tar, and 

 driven into the wood, will, it is said, last nearly as 



