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nails to each post, and driving them to within half an inch of 

 their heads, the first two and a half feet from the ground, a 

 second midway between that and the top, and the third near 

 the top, I attach No. 11 iron annealed wire firmly to one of 

 the nails in the end post, pass on to the next, and stretching 

 it straight and tight, give it one turn round a nail in the same 

 line as the one to which it was first attached. Having in this 

 manner extended it along the three courses, the whole length 

 of the row, my trellis is formed. I have had a portion of my 

 vineyard fitted up in this way for three years, and experience 

 has confirmed the superior fitness of the plan. It is not its 

 least recommendation, that it possesses in a degree the cha- 

 racter of labor-saving machinery. A very important and 

 extensive labor-making portion of the operations in the vine- 

 yard during the summer is the attention required by the 

 growing shoots to keep them properly trained up. They 

 grow and extend themselves so rapidly, that where the strips 

 of the trellis are lath, or where poles are used to support vines, 

 unless very closely watched, they fall down in every direction, 

 in a very unsightly and injurious manner. Here the wire 

 being small, the tendrils or claspers eagerly and firmly attach 

 themselves to it, and thus work for themselves in probably 

 two-thirds of the instances where the attention of the vigneron 

 would otherwise be required. There is a free access afforded 

 to the sun and air, and no hold for the wind to strain the frame. 

 After the vines have attained a full capacity for production 

 (say five years from the cutting), my view is to prepare them 

 for bearing an average of fifty clusters to each, leaving 

 several shoots of from three to five joints on a vine for this 

 purpose. When fresh pruned, they will not be more than four 

 feet high, at their greatest age." 



The modes of training in vineyards and vineries are alike 

 suited to the garden. Low training may be practised in bor- 

 ders or hedge rows in large gardens; and high training in 

 sheltered situations, on high trellises or arbors. By proper 

 management, the vine may be elevated to the middle story of 



