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Vineyard Culture. 



plants, chosen from the most vigorous varieties, are 

 placed at the foot of each tree. 



They are trained, from year to year, round the tree 

 to where it has been headed off. The principal limbs 

 of these trees, reduced to five or six, and cut parallel to 

 the rows, serve to support the vines, which form gar- 

 lands from one tree to another. [Fig. 28.] 



Sometimes, also, these vines are allowed to develop 

 branches, which, shooting six or ten feet from the 

 ground, are trained at right-angles with the row of 

 trees, and supported on each side with stakes, so as to 

 form continuous arbors. [Fig. 29.] At other times, 



[FiG. 29.] High-trained Fines. 



