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and be sure to make it two feet deep. Fill the 

 lower half (in the autumn) with inverted sods, 

 tread down hard, and put on top of this a foot 

 of good humus mixed with a few trowelfuls of 

 wood ashes. Have a stout pole in the center 

 and use brush to support the vines, giving them 

 a chance, with smaller branches, to fasten their 

 tendrils as soon as they are ready. My clumps 

 are seven feet high and absurdly floriferous. 

 I never use the same holes two years in suc- 

 cession — Maine isn't California! 

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