208 AMERICAN GARDENER, 



which exhibits, in all its dimensions, the cutting 

 become afilant, FIG. 1. The first year of its be- 

 ing a vine after the leaves are off and before firu- 

 mng, FIG. 2. The same year's vine pruned in 

 winter, FIG. 3. The vine, in the next summer, 

 with shoots, leates, and grapes, FIG. 4. Hav- 

 ing measured your distances, put in a cutting at 

 each place where there is to be a vine. You are 

 to leave two joints or buds out of ground. From 

 these will come two shoots perhaps ; and, if two 

 come, rub off the top one and leave the bot- 

 tom one, and, in winter, cut off the bit of dead 

 wood which will, in this case, stand above the 

 bottom shoot. Choose, however, the upper one 

 to remain, if the lower one be very weak. Or, 

 a better way is, to put in two or three cuttings 

 within an inch or two of each other, leaving only 

 one bud to each out of ground, and taking away, 

 in the fall, the cuttings that send up the weakest 

 shoots. The bject is to get one good shoot, com- 

 ing out as near to the ground as possible.-^ This 

 shoot you tie to an up right stick, letting it grow 

 its full length. When winter comes, cut this 

 shoot down to the bud nearest to the ground. 

 The next year another, and a much stronger 

 shoot will come out ; and, when the leaves are 

 off, in the fall, this shoot will be eight or ten feet 

 long, having been tied to a stake as it rose , 

 and will present what is described in FIG. 1, 

 PLATE III. You must make your trelis ; that is, 

 put in your upright l^ocust-bars to tie the next 

 summer's shoots to. You will want (See FIG. 2.) 

 eight shoots .to come out to run horizontally, to 

 be tied to these bars. You must now, then, in 

 winter, cut off your vine, leaving eight buds or 



