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so fruit. My vines are trained in various methods, some are on 

 cedar pole trellisses, others are trained to wires stretehed to 

 stout locust posts set firmly in the ground while some arc allow- 

 ed to run over an old stone wall just as nature taught them. 



The way that most of mv vines are managed is in the follow- 

 ing manner : — I cut red cetlar jjosts about ten feet long and cut 

 off the branches from six inches to three feet from the main 

 stem, these posts I set from two and a half to three feet into the 

 ground, and about six by ten feet apart. To each post I set one 

 vine. I have learn xl that vines trained in this way are less 

 trouble to manage and seem to do better in every way, being- 

 less liable to mildew and disease, the air circulates freely amcmg 

 them and the sun's rays will strike nearly every part. The con- 



sec]uence is that better fruit and larger clusters are obtained. 



If I do trim my vines I generally do the most of it in the fall, 

 sometime at the last of October or November, but I always cut 

 off any offending branch when I feel disposed at any season of 

 the year, and have never seen any bad effects from bleeding af- 

 ter severing a branch. 



There are some two hundred vines on my premises and as 

 fast as one dies out or is pulled up I generall}' set out another, 

 usually a year old layer. I have now in bearing condition the 

 Concord, Ives' seedling, lona, Dracut Amber, Clinton, Hartford 

 Prolific, Delaware, Taylor's Bullet, Elsingburg, Black Hawk, Al- 

 len's Hybrid, and the following of Rogers' Hybrids No's i, 3, 9, 

 ^3> ^S> ^9> 22, 39, 41, 43, 44, 33, besides several seedlings of na- 

 tive grapes which are rather poor and foxy, having only the de- 

 sirable qualities of early ripening and the hardiness and vigor of 

 of an oak. 



It is hard to decide which of the varieties are best suited for 

 our climate ; some years one kind will lead all others, while in 

 other years it will fall far in the rear. Generally speaking those 

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