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THE GRAPE CILTURIST. 



each cane, which would give two hundred and sixty four 

 bearing canes, and three bunches to each would yield 

 seven hundred and ninety-two bunches, which would cer- 

 tainly be a very large crop, unless the vine was very old. 



Fig. 108. 



Now, I am perfectly willing to acknowledge the truth 

 of Mr. Ilusmann's remark, " That there are some systems 

 that certainly look very pretty on paper" and this is one 

 of them. If any one will carefully study this picture and 

 find his way out of the intricate labyrinth of branches 

 which are to be produced from the immense number of 

 buds left on the vine when pruned off at the marks showD, 

 he may be set down as a prodigy in grape culture. 



