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OPEN AIR GEAPE CULTURE. 



A.t the base of a, below the cross-lme, will appear 

 intermediate little buds — some of them quite promi- 

 nent. The best of them must be taken, and no fear 

 need be entertained of getting a good cane from it, 

 if all the unnecessary huds ai^e jpromjptly extirpated. 



If, liowever, we allow shoots to grow all over the 

 vine we will probably fail-to get any cane at all. 



The following season, the shoot proceeding from a 



Pig. 22. 



is fruited, and b is cut off at the cross-line, 

 stage of its progress is shown in Fig. 22. 



Tliis 



Fig. 23, 



