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CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



a substitution of soil. By this method, a well-rooted vine 

 can be obtained from every eye on the cane ; yet they will be 

 stronger, and will ripen better, if not allowed to be nearer 

 than nine inches on each cane. The distance of the eyes 

 on the cane will govern this. Give a strong support to 

 the young plants, and allow a single shoot for each plant 

 to grow as long as it will. At the end of the season, 

 the young canes will be from four to eight feet, or even 

 ten feet, long ; and an abundance of roots will be found 

 along the entire length of the old cane, as seen in fig. 18. 

 d\ d\t all di 



Fig. 18. 



It will be found that roots have formed freely at the 

 notches in the arm a, and also at the base of each of canes 

 #, bj the last being of later growth. The arm is now to 

 be separated into a number of distinct vines at the lines 

 c, c, c / leaving the new canes c?, c?, d, J, for the same 

 process the following season. 



