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next buds, to obtain the two shoots for the arms. And 

 if the wall be seven or eight feet high, plant the vines 

 about three feet and a half apart, and train every alter- 

 nate one similar to fig. 7, and the others in a horizon- 

 tal manner, resembling fig. 4. If the summer shoots, 

 during their growth, interfere with each other, the rem- 

 edy is easy. From the flexibility of the shoots of the 

 vine, they can be trained in any manner that conve- 

 nience may dictate ; and the more they are bent and 

 curved about, the more fruitful do they become. It is 

 this property, indeed, that enables the skilful cultivator 

 to cover the face of a wall with full crops of grapes, in 

 a much shorter space of time, and with a far greater 

 degree of certainty, than can be done in respect to any 

 other description of fruit. 



