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of your square, so that a rag appears at each corner, 

 drive down a stake at every rag. Tliis done, move 

 your line down to the lower side of the square, which 

 is opposite to the first, and stretch your line along 

 that, having a rag at each corner, and drive down a 

 stake at every rag. Then turn your line the other 

 way up and down, and fasten your line to the upper 

 and lower outside stakes, so that a rag be at each 

 stake, and drive down a stake at every rag, and so on 

 from stake to stake, till the whole be completed. If 

 you have been careful not to disturb or move the 

 line, when you drove down the stakes, and have 

 driven them all on the same side of the line, your 

 square will be uniform, and the stakes near the 

 ground will range exactly every way." 



Where the vines are trained to trellises, it is not 

 essential that they should be straight both ways as 

 when tied to stakes, it being necessary that the trel- 

 lises be parallel and equi-distant only. 



To make them so. a very good plan is as follows : 



Prepare a rod, fig. 6, a few inches more than 



twenty feet long, and having a small hole (a) bored 



through one end, then bore a similar hole (c) twelve 



feet from the first ; one (&), 16 feet from the first ; and 



one {d) 20 feet from the first. Having decided upon 



the direction of the first row and divided it into 



spaces corresponding to the distance the plants are to 



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