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Eke a mantle the towering oat or covering the low 

 aider by the waiter side, its- dusters of fruit hanging in the 

 tihade beuaeafilL ; and Inrwia it we learn several fcndainental 

 principles. 1st. That white the Heaves requtire a Mi ex- 

 peisuire to the son, the {hut ripens iuliy without it. 3d. 

 That while the Tine grows upright it produces its moist 

 rigorous growth of wood, but its rait-pffodueing powers 

 are not fuly developed until it takes a horirantal position. 

 3d. That fhnit is parodueed most abundantly upon the up- 

 permost branches, and that it makes no difference whether 

 these upper branches aw on the tops of lofty trees or on 

 the humbfle shnobu This proves eoneln^ve^r that it is not, 

 as sojone c-<3iMvatoirs contend, the height that is nerassaij 

 fear the vine to bear we! ; fer the firait that is fifty feet 

 from the earth is no better than when it is at five, other 

 being equal. It only shows that the sap 

 presses to the top and Jorees out finott-bearing 

 that point. I do not mean that the upper buds 

 a one-year-old came win produce fruit, for this they 

 wiffl seldom do, as they are not graMacafy fiuit buds; but 

 if the eame is eortt baek to a wel-develop^d bud, and re- 

 mains pejrpiejnidic-ailbr r or nearer so, then the upper bud is 

 fior HMMre. e^rt^ium to prodnee ioruitt than those below it. Or 

 if the ycwazLg <J^m<es aire bent (eitther by art or by their own 

 we%hn, as we see them in their wild state) so as to check 

 the low of sapv and place the fatty developed buds in a 

 l%hcr position than those at the end, then they wiffl push 

 out and prw^iiww bearing canes. Therefore the rinc is said 

 tDDearits&iQmt afi tftxe topv as a rule, but it does not siorkdy 

 refer to the ugmcniofit buds. 4th. The fhnt is produced 

 upom the young gioming carocs> and opnoatje to the first 

 few leaves nhafi ame Snooted ; lasaaiy the first to third leave* 

 fined will have a bunch of fruit opposite; sometimes they 



When the shoot has 



ite fifth leaf without avowing aagns of fimt, then none need 



be esxpeeted, Ibr it is venr seldom that fimit is produced 



