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and twelve feet wide, and the vines are planted 

 two/ feet; apart. The plants should be of the 

 best possible description, such as is shown in 

 Fig. 3, p,^36. Such vines will have stout canes, 

 which will hasten materially the formation of 

 the upper tiers. The 'stocks that support the 

 upper tiers should be carried up so as to shade 

 equally the arms of the lower tiers, as shown in 

 the engraving. The arms are formed in the 

 usual manner. The vines are planted about a 

 foot from the wall, and the trellis set the same 

 distance from it, so as to allow of a circulation 

 of air between the vines and the wall. 



Modes of Bedding Vines. But vines that 

 are planted two feet apart, and only a foot, 

 from the wall, speedily interfere with each other 

 by the intermingling of their roots; and the 

 weak are gradually overpowered by the strong, 

 'the soil being warmest next the wall, the roots 

 congregate and work there, so that the weak 

 vines have but a remote chance of recovering. 

 This difficulty is overcome, and the soil more 

 evenly filled with roots, by planting the vines 

 several feet from the wall, and bringing them 

 up to it bjr layering or bedding. The wall will 

 not be so soon covered, it is true,- but the vines 

 may be fruited while being brought to the wall, 



