Eenewing an Old Vine, or Arbor of 

 Vines. 



Many persons Iiave old vines, which, from being 

 badly pruned and trained, fail to give either good or 

 abundant fruit, and yet the owners are loth to dig them 

 up, because they afford much shade, and they are fear- 

 ful that they may not succeed in producing other vines 

 more systematic in form, or more productive. Such 

 persons often ask us if they can bring their old vines 

 into our system of pruning, with any success. We an- 

 swer, yes. Our method of doing it is this : we prepare 

 a new border alongside of the old vine, and layer all 

 the wood that can be made available, burying the body 

 of the cane some six inches deep, along the border, and 

 bringing up the branches and young wood as layers, at 

 points where we desire to locate the new vines. The 

 whole vine may be coiled up like a spiral spring, and 

 buried at one spot, and a layer or layers may then be 

 brought up, within a small space of ground, from the 

 young wood ; or the branches may be carried any dis- 

 tance under ground, and brought up wherever desired. 

 The roots of the old vine should at the same time be 

 abundantly supplied with appropriate fertilizers, to pro- 



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