THE GRAPE. 43 



bed out betore the setting of fruit, while the upper and 

 second buds will give each three bunches, making twelve 

 bunches, full as much as any young vine should bear. So 

 much, in a condensed form, of " How to Prune." 



Thus far the vines have been trained to simple rough 

 stakes ; but now the trellis must be erected, as the next 

 or third season will require its use. Iron wire is found 

 the cheapest and best for the purpose ; the tendrils of the 

 vine cling to it, which they never do to wood, and thus 

 very much of the labor of tying is saved. The size of 

 the wire generally used is classed as No. 9. It should be 

 annealed in order to make it tough. 



ROWS OF TRELLIS. 



" The rows of the trellis," say some vignerons, "should 

 run north and south, because at the period that the grapes 

 are ripening they obtain more of the direct rays of the sun 

 than when they run east and west ; the sun being low at 

 that season, part of the vines are always in the shade." 

 Other practical men urge the east and west lines, " be- 

 cause, " they say, " at the season of ripening of the grapes, 

 the midday suns heat and reflect from the ground much 

 stronger upon the full face of the vine, than when the 

 rows are north and south." 



I have seen the perfect ripening of both lines, and con- 

 sider that more is due to the cultivation, soil and pruning 

 than the position of the trellis. 



