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the high cost of wire many growers are using but 

 two wires to their trellis, and this class of trellis has, 

 on the whole, proved fairly satisfactory. 



THE SULTANA. 



Grown on suitable land, the young sultana vine 

 should have made sufficient growth to be in a fit 

 state to trellis twelve months after planting. 



The trellis should be put in during the winter or 

 early spring, so that when the vine makes its second 

 season's growth it may at once be trained along 

 the wire and all its energy utilized to the best 

 advantage. 



A well-grown vine will generally have made 

 numerous canes of varying length during its first 

 season's growth. The best one of these should be 

 taken up to the bottom wire, cut off above this 

 height, the top bud of the cane thus treated blinded, 

 and the cane from just beneath this blinded bud tied 

 to the wire with stout string or binder twine. The 

 other canes of the vine, should be cut right off, as 

 only one stem is wanted. When tying the cane 

 selected for the stem on to the wire it should be 

 pulled up tightly, even if the wire is bent down 

 somewhat in consequence, so that the stem is quite 

 straightened out, and in this taut condition tied to 

 the wire. 



Where none of the canes of a vine are long enough 

 or of sufficient strength to be able to be treated in 

 this manner, the vine may be reduced to its strongest 

 cane as in the former case, but one of the canes that 

 is not wanted should not be cut clean off but left 

 with a stub of a few inches in length. On to this 

 stub a piece of binder twine is tied, and the other 

 end tied tightly on to the bottom wire of the trellis. 

 The cane it is intended to use as the stem is then 

 twisted around this piece of twine, which it uses as 



