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The cultivation of the ground between the 

 rows, the first season, may be chiefly per- 

 formed with a horse and cultivator. Keep 

 the plants well hoed and clean of weeds, re- 

 membering always that the oftener they are 

 cultivated and wed, the less the labor will cost ; 

 for if the beds get once choked with weeds 

 and grass, it will be found a sorry job to clean 

 them Train the runners the first season 

 lenghthwise of the rows. In the autumn of 

 each year, it is an excellent plan to apply a 

 little top-dressing of compost-manure, leaves 

 or old rotted straw to the beds, in quantities 

 nearly sufficient to hide the plants. The next 

 season, the vines will spread so that it will 

 hardly be practicable to go among them with 

 the horse and cultivator. The plants, this 

 and the next year, must be wed chiefly by 

 hand. The vines will bear quite a moderate 

 crop the first season, and their best crops du- 

 ring the second and third summers from their 

 planting out. On the third or, at farthest, on 

 the fourth spring after setting them, dig up all 

 the old plants and throw them away; for 

 their fruit-bearing days are over. If it is not 

 a particular object to increase the number of 

 plants, the number and size of the berries may 



