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system of alternately fruiting two shoots, and training 

 two at full length for bearing- wood in the following 

 year ; which method may be continued every year 

 without any alteration, until the capacity of the vine is 

 equal to the maturation of more fruit than can possi- 

 bly be borne by two single shoots ; which, on an ave- 

 rage, may be estimated at sixty pounds' weight annu- 

 ally. Several years must elapse before this will be the 

 case, but when it is, the arms may be easily lengthened 

 by the training in of a shoot at their extremities, and 

 managing it in the same manner as when the arms of 

 the vine were first formed. It is very advisable, how- 

 ever, that the vine should not be suffered to extend 



