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of these posts are tightly stretched, at a distance of six inches apart, 

 two strong No. 8 galvanized iron wires. The rows should run north 

 and south, so that they get the sunlight on both sides. The rows are 

 placed in the center of the tree-rows, or when alone, 10 feet apart, with 

 the vines 12 feet in the row, thus requiring about 362 plants to the 

 acre. 



"The young vine is trained with a single stem up the stakes until 

 it reaches the wires, when it is allowed to throw out from two to four 

 leaders, which are trained to run either way on the wires. As the vine 

 puts forth further growth, the main leaders and laterals are trained 

 along the wires. 



"Without judicious manuring there are very few districts where 

 the growing of this fruit would prove highly satisfactory, while, on 

 the other hand, those growers who are giving the most attention to 

 this important adjunct are the ones who are making the greatest 

 profits out of the industry. It has become a recognized fact that 

 liberal dressings of manure must be used from the time of planting 

 until the plants cease to be productive. 



"On making inquiry among the different growers, I found that 

 scarcely any two of them were using the same mixture. Some, on the 

 lighter soils, were using considerable quantities of blood and bone with 

 a little potash ; others were using bone, superphosphate, and potash ; 

 while others were using a mixture of nitrate of soda, dried blood, and 

 superphosphate and sulphate of potash, etc., etc. ; and judging from 

 the appearance of the different vines, all with very gratifying results. 



"When the fruit begins to ripen it should be picked at least twice a 

 week. It will keep well in a cool dry place, but I would recommend 

 marketing every week. 



"All badly formed and inferior fruit is discarded, and the better 

 fruit is mostly packed in layers, so that when opened at the markets 

 it presents a good appearance. In grading, color as well as size is 

 taken into consideration, any badly colored fruits being sorted out 

 and packed separately." 



THE SWEET GRANADILLA (Fig. 30) 

 (Passiflora ligularis, A. Juss.) 



Next in importance to the purple granadilla or passion- 

 fruit comes the sweet granadilla, a species extensively used by 

 the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America. In flavor it is perhaps the best of the genus, and 

 it certainly merits a wider distribution than it enjoys at present. 



