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In place of the wire, slats or laths may serve 
the same purpose (as seen in fig. 21), but they 
are not durable, and the posts must then be put 
in much closer. Another mode of making wire 
trellis (the Fuller plan) is with horizontal bars 
and perpendicular wires, as shown in a follow- 
ing illustration (fig. 22). Posts of good, hard, 
durable wood, 3 inches in diameter and 64 to 
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Fig. 22. 
7 feet long, are placed between the vines, at 
equal distance from each vine, and in a line 
with them, two feet deep in the ground. When 
the posts are set, nail on strips about 24 inches 
wide and 1 inch thick, one strip or bar being 
placed one foot from the ground, and the other 
at the top of the post. Then take No. 16 gal- 
 vanized iron wire and put it on perpendicularly, 
twisting it around the lower and upper bar, at 
a distance of about 12 inches apart. Galvan- 
ized iron is preferable, and as a pound of No. 
16 wire gives one hundred and two feet, the ad- 
ditional expense is but very small. This trellis 
Fig, 21. 
will probably cost less than with horizontal 
wires, and is preferred by some. Practical ex- 
perience, however, speaks in favor of horizontal 
wires, and a method with only two horizontal 
wires, the lower about 3 feet high and the upper 
about 54 feet high, is gaining the good opinion 
of vineyardists, East and West. A good many 
grape growers train their vines to stakes, be- 
lieving it to be cheaper, and the decline in the 
price of grapes and wine induces many to adopt 
the least costly plan; one, two and three stakes 
will be recommended by some, all of which will 
prove a slovenly—very inconvenient method. 
And yet, quite recently, a method of training 
our yines to but one stake each, pruning the 
vine to two branches, which are wound spirally, 
in opposite directions, around the stake, and 
nailed fast to its top, has been not only claimed 
as a new invention and as mprovement in 
grape culture, but has actually been patented! 
(J. B. Tillinghast, modes of training and secur- 
ing Grave-vines, No. 155,995. Patented Oet. 
13, 1874.) 
Some people believe even that we could -dis- 
pense with both trellis and stakes entirely, and 
urge the adoption of the ‘‘Souche” or “ Buck 
Pruning” plan used in ts of France and 
Switzerland, but quite impracticable ri our 
strong growing species 
If you have covered your young vines last 
fall, remove the earth from over them at the ap- 
proach of spring; then cultivate the whole 
ground; plowing between the rows from four to 
six inches deep, and carefully hoeing around 
in vineyards, but since we got Hexamer’s prong- 
hoe we prefer this excellent tool. The ground 
should thus be broken up, inverted and kept in 
a mellow condition Piss but do not 
work the ground when wet! 
During the second phe a cane or shoot is 
produced from each of the two or three buds 
which you left on the young vine last fall. Of 
