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whenever a twig is cut off, the buds on it 

 below the cut, have a tendency to turn into 

 limbs. The same operation may again be 

 performed upon these limbs, and so on. A 

 knowledge of this fact, a skillful hand, and 

 good taste to guide it, will ensure success in 

 all the modes of training which an American 

 will wish to practice. 



Out-door grapes may be easily trained in a 

 fan-shaped form, having but one smooth trunk 

 coming out of the ground, and branching at 

 from one to three feet high; or two branches 

 only may be suffered to grow horizontally, 

 like two arms, and, from those parallel 

 perpendicular shoots may be trained upward, 

 at equal intervals from each other. Another 

 pair of arms may be made three or five feet 

 higher up, and perpendiculars also trained 

 from these as before. Late in the autumn, or 

 in the winter of each year, cut down these 

 perpendiculars, to within two or three buds 

 (or eyes as they are called,) of the horizontal 

 arms, and in the following summer train up 

 other new shoots, precisely as before, suffer- 

 ing only one shoot to grow in a place. 

 When these perpendiculars have fairly set 



