3o8 



Notes and Gleaninsrs. 



Stretching and fastening Grape Wire-Trellis. — In putting up grape 

 wire-trellis, the stretching and fastening it is often a very annoying labor. If 

 strained too tight, it sometimes draws the post out of the ground ; and, if left 

 loose, the sway and sag of the wires brings them too near the ground when the 

 vines are lo^ded with fruit. Again : while wires may be put up tight in winter, 

 the expansion in summer will loosen, or rather sway them, at, perhaps, the very 

 time when they should be the most taut ; and if put up tight in the summer. 



when all is expanded, the cold of winter will tighten and strain them often to 

 breaking, or drawing over of the posts. To remedy all these difficulties, George 

 Leick, Esq., of Cleveland, O., an extensive grape-grower, and a manufacturer 

 of native wine to the amount of about forty thousand gallons annually, has re- 

 cently had cast some iron cylinders perforated with holes for two wires, and one 

 for a staple-pin to hold the cylinder in place. See our illustration No. i. The 

 main posts being set for the grapes, a short post is set deeply in the ground 



