GARDEN CULTURE. 



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it. If the trellis is suspended by iron or wooden brackets, 

 no apparent injury will be done to the surface behind it. 



TRAINING TO STAKES. 



There is seldom a garden so small but 

 there is room for at least one grape vine, 

 though it is often the case that there is a 

 place for a vine but no room for a trellis ; 

 when this occurs, the vines may be trained 

 to a stake, or a number of them ; and when 

 so trained they may be planted among shrub- 

 bery, in flower beds, or upon the lawn. 

 There is nothing that will add more to the 

 beauty of the garden, or produce a better 

 effect than vines, planted in groups or scat- 

 tered here and there, as is usual with orna- 

 mental shrubs and plants. The vines in such 

 situations should always be kept low and 

 never permitted to produce long and naked 

 stems which would become unsightly and 

 mar the beauty of the garden when they be- 

 come old. Prepare the soil as for vines in 

 other situations, and grow but one cane the 

 first season ; then prune it down to eighteen 

 or twenty-four inches from the ground ; the 

 next season allow but two canes to grow ; 

 pinch off the tops of these when they have 

 grown five or six feet, so that they shall not 

 only ripen their wood but become more 

 stocky. Fig. 60 shows the vine with two 

 canes at the end of the second season. If 

 the vine was large and vigorous when planted 

 it will usually produce fruit the second sea- 

 son ; if so, pinch off the top of each cane 

 when it has grown about two feet ; this will Fi g . eo. 



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