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PLANTING OF A VINEYARD Continued. PACK 



At what Depth to Plant, - 106 



Laying out the Line for Planting, 106 



Mode of Planting, - 108 



Planting by Layering, - 113 



Operations Supplemental to Planting, - -114 



Replanting, - - 115 



VII. PRUNING THE VINE. 



Object of the Operation, - - 116 

 The Proper Time for Pruning the Fine, - -117 

 Method of Cutting the Shoots and Large Stems, - 119 

 Pruning Instruments, - - 1 1 9 

 What Forms to give to the fines, - 122 

 Use of the Parent Stock, - -123 

 Proper Dimensions of the Vine, - - - 1 23 

 Hight of the Plants above Ground, - 124 

 High-trained Vines, - 125 

 Average-sized Vines, - 1 28 

 Low Vines, - 138 

 Mode of Pruning in order to Form the Stocks, - 141 

 Cup-shaped Vines of the South, without Stakes, - 142 

 Four- Armed Trellis, for Vigorous Varieties, with Stakes, 1 45 

 Trellis with Two Arms, for Plants of Moderate Vigor, 147 

 Trellis with a Single Arm, for Vines that are not Vig- 

 orous, - - 147 

 Restoring Badly-Planted or Badly-Formed Vines, - 147 

 Annual Pruning of Fruit-Stems, - - 149 

 Principles on which the Operation must be Based, 149 

 The foregoing Theory put in Practice, - - 1 54 



VIII. VARIOUS MODES OF SUPPORTING GRAPE-VINES. 



Necessity of the Operation, - 155 



Parlous Modes of Support, - 156 



