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The Single Stem, Dwarf and Renewal 

 System of Grape Culture. 



We presume every grape-grower lias felt the want of 

 Bome simple, definite and efficient system of managing 

 the vine, especially in the vineyard, and upon small 

 arbors and trellises. After all the talk about grape 

 culture, no one that we know of has any established 

 method of pruning and training the vine, which may 

 be pronounced a simple, complete and satisfactory sys- 

 tem. The German method, as practised at Cincinnati, 

 it is admitted, is not well adapted to the production of 

 perfect table grapes ; and the Thomery system, advo- 

 cated by Dr. C. W. Grant, though elegant and success- 

 ful on high trellises, is not adapted to vines with long 

 joints, nor to general vineyard culture. To allow vines 

 to range almost unrestrained over tall trees and immense 

 arbors, is by many considered the perfection of wisdom, 

 while it is literally a great system with no system at all. 



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