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moved, but that this happens very rarely. It must 

 also be noted that we ought to try diligently to dis- 

 cover : 



What every clime may yield and what refuse." 



When, therefore, the plant has been put into the 

 ground, whether it be a mallet-shoot or a quick-set, 

 it is proper to adjust it in such a way that the vine 

 may stand up without any prop. This, however, 8 

 cannot be achieved immediately. For unless you 

 have provided the vine with a support when it is 

 tender and weak, the young shoots will creep along and 

 keep close to the ground. So, when the plant is set 

 in the earth, a reed is attached to it, so that it may, 

 as it were, watch over its infancy and train it and 

 raise it to such stature as the husbandman allows it 

 to reach. This, moreover, ought not to be high, for 

 it must be checked when it reaches a foot and a half. 

 Afterwards, when it gains strength and can already 9 

 stand without any help, it comes to maturity by the 

 growth of its head or its branches. For here too 

 there are two methods of cultivation, some people 

 preferring vines which grow to a head, others those 

 which grow out in arms. Those who delight in 

 shaping a vine into arms should preserve whatever 

 it puts forth near the scar where the young vine has 

 had its top removed, and divide it into four arms a 

 foot long in such a way that each of them looks 

 towards a different region of the sky.* But these arms 10 

 are not allowed to reach this height immediately in 

 the first year, lest the vine be too heavily laden while 

 it is still weak, but they must only reach the length 

 which I have indicated after numerous prunings. 

 Next there must be left projecting from these arms 



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