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grower who has given grape raising careful attention has 

 introduced into his own vineyard some modifications 

 which he thinks are of special value to him. There are 

 various curious and instructive old books to which the 

 reader can go if he desires to know the history and evo- 

 lution of grape training in America. He will find that we 

 have now passed through the long and costly experiment 

 with European systems. And we have also outgrown the 

 gross or long-wood styles, and now prune close with the 

 expectation of obtaining superior and definite results. 



I have not attempted to rely upon my own resources in 

 the preparation of this book. All the manuscript has been 

 read by three persons by George C. Snow, Penn Yan, 

 N. Y., William D. Barns, Middle Hope, N. Y., and L. 

 C. Corbett, my assistant in the Cornell Experiment 

 Station. Mr. Snow is a grower in the lake region of 

 western New York, and employs the High Renewal system; 

 Mr. Barns is a grower in the Hudson River valley, and 

 practices the Kniffin system ; while Mr. Corbett has been 

 a student of all the systems and has practiced two or 

 three of them in commercial plantations. These persons 

 have made many suggestions of which I have been glad 

 to avail myself, and to them very much of the value of 

 the book is to be attributed. 



L. H. BAILEY, 



ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. i, 1893. 



