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the root of the vine. The outside branches are to 

 l>e cut away entirely at the end of the fourth year. 

 This is aii ingenious renewal post system, and it 

 is easy to see how the Horizontal Arm and High 

 systems may have sprung from it. 



~~>~, Dufour's sketch of training on mulberry trees, suggeste< 

 by Kuroi>r;m practice. 1826. 



The next important account appears to be that 

 of -I oli n -lames Dufour, who wrote the "American 

 Vi ne -Dresser's Guide" in 1826. Dufour published 

 i In- second pictures of grape-training, two of which 

 are here n-prodneed (Fi^'s. 1256, 257). A part of 

 Dufour's sketch will interest us: 



