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it, no matter in what form it may come, and I will assist you in having tlie new 

 canes start from as near the ground as possible each year." 



Grape-culture is undergoing a great and radical change. Once the ground 

 must be trenched to the depth of three feet, vines to be planted on steep hill- 

 sides ; and we thought expensive wine-cellars, of great depth, to be indispen- 

 sable : whereas vine-planters are now planting on rich rolling lands, such as 

 they would select for a good crop of com, with only the additional preparation 

 of subsoiling with a good subsoil-plough to the depth of twelve or fifteen inches. 



\'ine-planters have learned by experience the value of well-grown, healthy vines. 

 Of these, the most desirable are strong, one-year-old vines, grown from cuttings, 

 the principal roots being about ten inches below the surface at the lower end 

 of the cuttings. A good vine should have at least two feet of well-ripened wood 

 and roots, which can only be secured by growing it on at least two superficial 

 feet of space. 



My method of growing vines is to plant them in rows four feet apart, and 



