GEAPE CULTURE. 



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a post is set out and another between that and the hill, fourteen 

 feet from tlie former and three feet from the hill, aM in one line, at 

 a right angle with the length of the bed. A simple trellis of two 

 wires * with a rail on top, five feet high by fourteen feet long, 

 with two feet of space between the ground and the lower wire, and 

 eighteen inches between the wires and the rail above. To the rail 

 and each wire two vines are trained, one on either side. The 

 vines are secured by four-inch pieces of small annealed wire, to 

 hold which on the sides of the rail, large tacks are driven. The 

 bending of these short wires is done much more quickly than 



A a . jB A 



Fig. 1. 



A, the short stake to which the hill of vines is tied. 



tying. The vines thus trained horizontally, and grown each in 

 one single stem and arm or cane, are from seventeen to twenty feet 

 long. On each vine, buds are allowed to grow ; the first two feet 

 from the ground, and others one foot apart the entire length ; the 

 rest are rubbed out. The shoot from each bud forms a spur on the 

 arm, and each spur is suffered to produce one or two clusters, not 

 more. No canes should be allowed to bear till the spurs are 



* If preferred, four wires may be used, with one foot space and one 

 vine on each wire, leaving two vines for the rail. The writer prefers two 

 wives only. 



