158 THE GRAPE. 



Trellis, for the support of vines. These are usu- 

 ally made by setting tall upright posts, and nailing 

 to them light horizontal rails at different distances 

 from the ground. Wire trellis is made by driving 

 successive horizontal rows of large nails into the 

 posts, about one foot from each other, arid stretch- 

 ing wires from post to post by passing once round 

 each nail, till the trtllis is completed. This mode 

 of construction is cheap and durable, and enables the 

 grapes to support themselves by the tendrils, which 

 clasp freely the small wires. The annexed figure, 



Fig. 34. 



(fig. 34,) represents a good and cheap grape trellis, 

 described in the Cultivator by J. M. Harlan. The 

 posts are six feet apart and ten or twelve feet high, 

 and stiff enough to support a ladder in gathering. 

 Pins, pointing upwards, in rows two feet apart, 



