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better than any body else. The system is very 

 simple, and the engraving shows quite plainly 

 how it is formed. The vines are planted two 

 or three feet apart, and grown obliquely at an 

 angle of about forty-five degrees, the spurs being 

 all on one side. With this exception, it is pre- 

 cisely like the Upright Stock described at p. 

 107, and the directions there given may be fol- 

 lowed here. The two end vines, it will be seen, 

 are somewhat modified to fill up the trellis ; the 

 one on the right being made shorter, and the one 

 on the left having two oblique arms. Any body 

 but a Frenchman would have left out the two 

 end vines ; but he understands the value of space 

 too well, and, besides, brings his good taste as 

 well as judgment to bear upon every thing he 

 does, always striving to unite the beautiful with 

 the useful. The trellis, too, it will be observed, 

 is a little peculiar. The uprights are oblique as 

 well as the vines, and do not stop at the hori- 

 zontal top piece, but extend above it, so that the 

 canes from the upper buds may have something 

 to be tied to. Every thing necessary seems to be 

 provided in the engraving. We do not present 

 the system as being at all suited to the vineyard, 

 but as something that may gratify the amateur 

 in the garden, where it would have a pretty ef- 



