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of your square, so that a rag appears at eacli corner, 

 drive down a stake at every rag. This done, move 

 your line down to the lower side of the square, which 

 is opposite to the first, and stretch your line along 

 that, having a rag at each corner, and drive down a 

 stake at every rag. Then turn your line the other 

 way up and down, and fasten your line to the upper 

 and lower outside stakes, so that a rag be at each 

 stake, and drive down a stake at every rag, and so on 

 from stake to stake, till the whole be completed. If 

 you have been careful not to disturb or move the 

 line, when you drove down the stakes, and have 

 driven them all on the same side of the line, your 

 square will be uniform, and the stakes near the 

 ground will range exactly every way." 



AVhere the vines are trained to trellises, it is not 

 essential that they should be straight both ways as 

 when tied to stakes, it being necessary that the trel- 

 lises be parallel and equi-distant only. 

 ' To make them so, a very good plan is as follows : 

 Prepare a rod, -Q-g. 6, a few inches more than 

 twenty feet long, and having a small hole (a) bored 

 through one end, then bore a similar hole (c) twelve 

 feet from the first ; one (h), 16 feet from the first ; and 

 one {cl) 20 feet from the first. Having decided upon 

 the direction of the first row and divided it into 

 spaces corresponding to the distance the plants are to 



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