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definite system should be adopted. Dr. Guyot recommends to divide 

 the vineyard into 2^-acre blocks, 50 yards wide by 200 yards long ; 

 the roads, 200 yards apart, being 10 feet wide, whilst the others are 

 16ft. Sin. in width. Under these conditions 11*5 per cent, of the 

 whole vineyard would be taken up by roads. 



In Victoria it will be preferable to have the main roads wider, say, 

 25 feet, and the smaller ones not less than 12 feet. If the vines be 

 staked or trained gooseberry style, they should be divided into 5-acre 

 blocks, say 5x10 chains ; if trained on wires, these blocks might, 

 with advantage, be divided into two by a narrow road running length- 

 ways. This greatly facilitates work at vintage time, and enables 

 lighter straining posts to be used for the wire, the expansion and 

 contraction of which is also less on a short length. 



The division of a vineyard into blocks of the same size is to be 

 recommended ; it greatly facilitates observation and comparisons, 

 and is a great advantage if part of the vineyard is to be worked by 

 contract. 



The roads should be made deeper than the rest of the vineyard, in 

 order that they may, to a certain extent, act as drains. If properly 

 formed, with a water-table on each side, they will be just as firm and 

 maintain themselves in as good order as if raised above the surface of 

 the rest of the vineyard, whilst, at the same time, they greatly benefit 

 it by carrying off the surplus water. 



.The practice frequently adopted in Europe of cultivating other 

 plants, such as wheat, asparagus, fruit trees, &c., between rows of 

 vines is strongly to be condemned, especially in a dry climate, where 

 the vine requires all the moisture there is in the soil, especially when 

 it is young and not deep-rooted and cannot obtain moisture from the 

 lower layers of the soil. For similar reasons different sorts ought 

 not to be mixed together in the same block, but kept separate. Their 

 grapes can easily be blended at vintage time, and the grower will 

 have the advantage of knowing in what proportion they are blended, 

 as well as all particulars of yield per acre, &c., of such and such a 

 sort, details of which he would otherwise be totally ignorant. 



The above are the principal points which require attention, and 

 should be fulfilled by any one going in for viticulture in a thorough 

 manner. Such conditions as shape of land to be planted or excessive 

 steepness of portions of it may render it impossible to observe them 

 in every detail, but nevertheless they should receive attention 

 wherever practicable. 



