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FIRST FIVE YEARS MANAGEMENT. 

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that push from the spurs H, H, train also in a similar 

 form. Clean the surface of the ground, and fork it 

 up as in the preceding year. The Calendarial Reg- 

 ister will now supply the details of the future man- 

 agement. 



The vine has now assumed the form which it is 

 permanently to retain, and the manner in which it is 

 trained, may be considered as the commencement of 

 a system of alternately fruiting two shoots, and train- 

 ing two at full length for bearing-wood in the follow- 

 ing 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 possibly be borne by two single shoots ; which, 

 on an average, may be estimated at sixty pounds' 

 weight annually. 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 



