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OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE. 



' During the summer I inspect tlie vines regularly 

 every morning ; seeing that the ends of my leaders 



Fig. 



are in their proper places, and not obstructed ; pick- 

 ing off tendrils and stopping the laterals above the 



Fig. 88. 



first leaf, on my next year's bearing wood, tying 

 down fruit spurs carefully, and stopping any shoot 

 that may have sprung from the ends of them; as 



