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OPEN AIB GEAPE CULTURE. 



Marking off the Ground. — ^Wliere vines are set 

 out at from 4 to 6 feet apart and trained to stakes, 

 the following directions, taken from the "American 

 Philosophical Transactions," and frequently quoted 

 (generally without credit), are as good as any : 



" Yonr squares being laid out, and having con- 

 cluded how far your vines shall stand every way 

 from one another, in which every man is to please 

 himself, you stretch a line of proper length, and 

 stitch small pieces of red, blue, green, or any other 

 colored cloth, at such distance from each other as you 

 mean to plant the vines. I will suppose 8 feet, 

 ' because upon the most mature deliberation, I think 

 that the best distance for vines to stand in this coun- 

 try, as I shall afterward show more fully. The line 

 being ready, stretch it along the head or upper part 



