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showers ; third, only two wires are needed, and the labor of 

 pruning is much less than where several arms are employed ; 

 fourth, as large a crop of grapes can be grown as with the many- 

 arm system. In Fig. 1 a part of three vines is shown. The 

 upper cane of last season's growth is represented in fruit, while 



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the new cane is trained on the lower wire. The fruiting spurs are 

 pinched off as soon as the first leaf is found beyond the last bunch 

 of blossoms, and whenever new shoots start from these laterals one 

 leaf is allowed to grow. The laterals on the new canes are treated 

 in the same wa}", and the end is stopped in gi'owth as soon as it is 

 a foot past the next vine toward wliich it is growing. At the end 

 of the season the fruited cane is cut away and the new cane from 

 the lower wire is brought to the upper wire for the next season's 

 fruiting. 



Girdling grapes to hasten their ripening was explained. Grapes 

 are thus hastened in time of ripening from one week to ten days. 

 It has been practised for fifteen years by Mr. Wheeler of Concord, 

 and is the only way that he can secure his crop from frost in the 

 fall, as his vineyard is only a few feet above the river that flows 

 near. 



Remedy for apple maggot or railroad worm, so called : destroy 

 all fallen fruit and pick all marketable fruit before it gets at all 

 mellow. 



Cold-storage houses with ice are used by Messrs. Hunt, Eames 

 and others. Drip was prevented by having ice on slats and the 

 water caught on sheet iron underneath. Mr. Hunt used waste 

 water for cooling milk. Mr. Hartwell believed that there was an 

 outlet for all the fine fruit we can grow. Captain Palmer would 

 grow fruit in connection with general farming. The farmer should 

 have a good deal to sell and considerable variety, that his income 

 may be distributed through the year. Would advise young men 

 to plant fruit trees. Use them well and they will use you well. 

 Intends to continue planting, not a few trees each year, but 

 several hundred. 



