FRUITS. CHAP. 



tances, put in a cutting at each place where there is to 

 be a vine, leaving above ground only two joints or buds. 

 From these will come two shoots, perhaps j and, if two 

 come, rub off the top one and leave the bottom one, and, 

 in winter, cut off the bit of dead wood which will, in 

 this case, stand above the bottom shoot. Choose, how- 

 ever, the upper one to remain, if the lower one be very 

 weak. Or, a better way is, to put in two or three cut- 

 tings within an inch or two of each other, leaving only 

 one bud to each out of ground, and taking away, in the 

 fall, the cuttings that send up the weakest shoots. The 

 object is to get one good shoot, coming out as near to 

 the ground as possible. This shoot you tie to an upright 

 stick, letting it grow its full length. When winter 

 comes, cut this shoot down to the bud nearest to the 

 ground. The next year another, and a much stronger 

 shoot will come out -, and, when the leaves are off, in the 

 fall, this shoot will be eight or ten feet long, having been 

 tied to a stake as it rose, and will present what is de- 

 scribed in fig. 1. plate 5. You must make your trellis j 

 that is, put in your upright locust-bars to tie the next 

 summer's shoots to. You will want (see fig. 2.) eight 

 shoots to come out to run horizontally, to be tied to 

 these bars. You must now, then, in winter, cut off your 

 vine, leaving eight buds or joints. You see there is a 

 mark for this cut at a, fig. 1. During summer, eight 

 shoots will come, and, as they proceed on, they must 

 be tied with matting, or something soft, to the bars. 

 The whole vine, both ways included, is supposed to go 

 sixteen feet - } but, if your tillage be good, it will go 

 much further, and then the ends must be' cut off in 

 winter. Now, then, winter presents you your vine as in 



