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run to the top of the arbor in a single season, and afford 

 immediate shade and abundance of fruit, far surpassing, 

 in respect to beauty and profit, vines grown in the com- 

 mon way. 



Vines on old arbors may be renewed by layers from 

 the old stock, and trained upon this system with great 

 ease and success, entirely renovating the old vines, and 

 changing the system of culture in one year, to the great 

 delight of the owner. 



A very pretty arbor may be made upon the south 

 side of a barn or house, by planting posts two feet high, 

 say four or five feet from the wall or barn, and run- 

 ning rafters from these posts to the barn or house, just 

 like the rafters of a vinery. Strain wires lengthwise of 

 this arbor, plant and train the vines on the inside of 

 the rafters, and you have a sort of out of door vinery, 

 (minus the glass,) a very novel and interesting object, 

 and a very admirable method of growing grapes. The 

 bunches of grapes, when vines are trained on this plan, 

 will hang under the foliage, affording a degree of shade 

 which is very useful to them, and a current of cool, 

 moist air will constantly pass through the arbor, which 

 is highly beneficial to the vines. For the Catawba 

 grape especially, this would be an excellent method ; 

 and if the borders were slightly elevated, and well 

 drained, so as to be easily dried off in the fall, a sure 

 crop of fine, well ripened grapes might be obtained, 

 every year, from such an arbor, at least as far north as 

 Philadelphia. Farther north, it might be advisable to 



