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which in all probability will give a crop quite as soon, if 

 not sooner, than the large ones. The manner of plant- 

 ing the vine is similar to that of setting any other tree or 

 shrub. The ground must be thoroughly broken up, not 

 in a mere hole only sufficient to hold the roots, but if a 

 regular border has not been made, the place where each 

 vine is to be planted, should not be less than three feet 

 in diameter, and if double that, all the better, and to the 

 depth of not less than a foot. On receiving the vine 

 from the nursery, it may consist of one or more shoots, 



Fig. 54. VINE WITH TWO SHOOTS. 



Fig. 55. VINE WITH ARMS. 



but on planting it should be cut back to only two or three 

 eyes or buds. On starting to grow, all of these buds or 

 eyes should be rubbed off except one, selecting the strong- 

 est. Train this shoot perpendicularly to a stake the first 

 year of its growth, tne next fall, when the leaves drop, 

 cut it back to nine or ten inches from the ground. When 

 the vine starts the next spring, rub off all eyes or buds 

 except two, which during the season will form two canes, 

 as in fig. 54. These, if they are canes half an inch in 



