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is lost by shade. The stocks are set less than two feet apart, and sometimes less than 

 twenty inches, so that the arms are from three feet and a half to nearly four feet long. 

 When the box-layers are used, the progress toward establishment may be so hastened, 

 that strong canes may be growing on the principal trellis ready for making arms, the 

 second season from planting, the border being well filled with roots, and the vines iu 



bearing condition. 



Plate No. 29. 



PJate No. 80. 



Let a trench two feet wide and twenty inches deep be made in the border, parallel 

 with the wall, and having its nearest side four feet from it. 



Into the bottom of the trench put three or four inches of the soil from rich sods, and 

 upon this place the boxes at the regular distances from each other, and so that the point 

 Vv^here the canes rise from them will be four feet and six inches from the wall, as repre- 

 sented in Plate No. 29. 



Fill in around the box and two inches above it, with the same material that was di- 

 rected for the bottom of the trench. Set a stake F two feet from the box in the direc- 

 tion of the wall, with the cane pruned and directed toward it obliquely ascending, to be 

 fastened as at E. About the middle of June a cane will be grown from the upper bud, 

 three or four feet long. The last season's cane is now to be turned from its place and 

 a trench to be made, one foot wide, in the direction between the box and the stake, and 

 in depth to within four inches of the bottom of the box. 



By the same proceeding, only placing the box one foot nearer the wall, the vine may 

 be placed upon the trellis, the first season bearing three bunches of fruit. Eemoval of 

 the fruit will hasten the maturity of the vine. « 



Plate 30 represents an ordinary vine three years old that has not been transplanted 

 or root-pruned. All of the portion of it that can be used in planting is destitute of 

 fibers, and they can never be reproduced except from the ends where the root-pruning 

 is performed at planting, the marks for which are shown. The disadvantage of such 

 vines is obvious. See Box-Layer, Plate No. 31, which is the best possible kind of 

 plant that can be produced. Plate No. 32 represents the best quality of vine of more 

 than one year old produced by transplanting and root-pruning. 



