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Grapes are always borne on the new wood, and each upright 

 cane of a vine of the age and condition here represented will 

 be likely to set two or three bunches of fruit. Not more than 

 two bunches are allowable, unless the vine is unusually strong 

 and vigorous, for a first crop. The danger is that too much 

 fruit will set, and the temptation is strong to allow all to ma- 

 ture. When the matter of thinning is reached, this subject will 

 be more fully discussed. 



Vines trained in the 

 way here described are 

 to be planted out in 

 rows, from eight to 

 twelve feet apart, and 

 the horizontal arms 

 cut of such a length 

 that those of different 

 vines will just meet, 

 and cover the trellis. 

 But vines may be set 

 as near as six feet 

 even, and by a slight 

 variation in the method 

 of training give good 

 crops. Take the vine, 

 as represented in Fig. 

 ^_^ 50. and instead of cut- 

 j ting back both canes 

 I t o f our or g ve feet, 



shorten one only, and 

 cut the other back to two or three buds. Train the shoots from 

 these buds to a stake planted near the root, and the long arm 

 horizontally, as in the first method. Fig. 54 will show this 

 method without further description. Vines thus trained may be 

 set five or six feet apart, and this distance may do for those 

 that make but a feeble growth ; but strong-growing varieties, 

 such as the Concord and its seedlings, will require ten or 

 twelve feet each way. 



A method of training having some advantages is represented 

 in Fig. 55. A part of the canes ma} 7 be tied up to a stake set 



