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ress during the season in one engraving. A, 

 B, C, and F represent the vines as they ap- 

 peared in June at the time for first pinching. 

 D represents a vine at the first maturity of 

 fruit, on which all of the proper summer op- 

 erations have been well performed. Some of 

 the leaves have been taken away at d, to show 

 the canes and the fruit as it is borne uniformly 

 throughout the vine. E is one like it late in 

 the fall, with some of the bunches still hang- 

 ing at f. The canes of the arm g are properly 

 pruned, as may be done in November ; but, 

 for safety, it is well to leave one bud more on 

 each spur, to be rubbed off at starting in the 

 spring. 



At A is shown a vine that has been de- 

 layed two years in its progress by having had 

 layers taken from it. The canes a and #, on 

 the vine C, are ready to be depressed (like 

 o on F) toward the horizontal position, to 

 finish their growth for the beginning of arms. 

 The student who has followed us attentively 

 thus far has found that this system is no 

 more difficult of comprehension than any other, 

 except that there is more of it. It is not 

 so well adapted for the vineyard as some 

 others that we have described, except where 



