120 THE GRAPE. 
are aware, that in thus speaking of tnis walking-stick 
mede of ee we are going in the face of many g: 
grape-growers ; but the fact of a thing being generally 
Pia katie is no eriterion of its excellence. Nature’s 
&ction in all these matters ought to be our guide, and the 
m ce we adapt ourselves to her laws, the more permanent 
will be our success. 
eects the long-rod method is practised. In this 
case, the first summer the cane is trained up as in the 
former stom seit left somewhat longer when pruned, 
and this suffered to bear a full crop the next season; after 
which it is cut clean out to one eye from the bottom; an- 
other cane having been taken up during the same time 
from its base, to afterwards take the place of the one last 
fraited, and so on. By this plan, which is seen in Fig. 18, 
fine fruit may be obtained, as the bunches ema- 
nate from strong buds, which, if they have 
some and large clusters; but there is the evil 
of eae = ent off, at one fell —— = — 
of the pla 
excepting a very r lowest stump. This whole- 
and oft-repeated cutting keeps the plant 
ina 2 ati state of excitement, which is sure 
to eventually show itself in premature weak- 
ness. It is sometimes useful to resort to this : plan, where 
iittle further each season, and taking upright canes from 
: these main branches, at the distance of two feet apart ; in 
of “ce arene eh br Coa ec 
ye after be up the next 
_" i in its turn, a shown in Fig 19. As the 
