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canes C. All vestiges of H having disappeared, as A did the year before, C is noir 

 about to disappear in the same manner, two of the canes. being removed by cutting 

 through the old wood below ground at the mark, and the other being pruned also as 

 marked, and bedded to produce the three canes D, the vine now having arrived at the 

 wall, with a train of roots springing in all directions from the vertebra which traverses 

 the border at fourteen or sixteen inches below the surface. 



Plate No. 24. 



Plate No. 25. 



By this means the parallelogram two feet wide, extending the breadth and depth of 

 the border, becomes accessible to all of the roots, at nearly equal distances, each portion 

 offering some peculiar attraction, so that no part small as the fraction of an inch remains 

 unoccupied ; all of them during the whole season, with slight exceptions, being in the 

 most favorable conditions for performing their office. 



As represented in the engraving, they radiate in all directions, no large ones being 

 formed to destroy the balance among the vines or among the members of the same plant. 



Plate No. 26 represents a row for the wall-trellis of a Thomery plan, with the trench 

 open, so that the vines may not be buried too deeply during their first summer. 



The direction of the row is north-east and south-west, facing the south-east, which is 

 the most favorable aspect. It is not necessary for the success of the plan that it should 

 always bear a south-easterly aspec^^ but it should be somewhat southerly. An eastern 

 aspect is but little inferior to a southern, and greatly preferable to western. At C is 

 shown the ridge of soil that is to remain during the summer and be put into the trench 

 in the fall to remain. At D, D, D, are represented vines that have made a fine season's 

 growth under good management. At F one is represented early in the season with a 

 shoot that is just ready to be tied to the stake, the other two shoots having been jua*" 

 rubbed off. At B the stocks are seen as they appear immediately after planting, before 

 the buds have begun to push forth. The vines of this row are intended to be treated 

 by bedding, as shown b}^ Plates Nos. 24 and 25. It is not indispensable that the num- 

 ber of beddings shall bn three, nor absolutely that there shall be any ; but under ordinary 

 circumstances that is the best number, and one is at least always to be advised when 

 permanence is a consideration, 



"Whether the beddings are one or more the manner of proceeding is the same, filling 

 the long trench in the fall and opening another in the spring, by the measure of its 

 width nearer the wall, of the same depth and width, but which is to remain open during 

 the summer and be filled as before at the end of the season. In the bottom of this 

 trench, and crossing it at right angles, trenches one foot wide are to be made, as deep 



