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ON THE TRAINING OF VINES. 



Fig. 3. 



set in very strongly, it cannot be diverted into the oth- 

 er channels in which it is required, except in a com- 

 paratively trifling degree. But if, as represented in 

 the above figure, the shoots be trained in a serpentine 

 manner in the early part of the year, before the sap 

 is in motion, it will, in its ascent, be thereby made to 

 flow more equally into all the fruiting-shoots that push 

 from them, and also into those which will be emitted 

 from the spurs D, for future bearers. And by bending 

 the bottom part of the shoots pretty circularly at a, the 

 buds will there burst strongly, and thus a good supply 

 of bearing-wood will be obtained close to the arms Z, Z, 



