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American Grape Training. 



prises three wires, although only two are sometimes 

 used for the smaller growing varieties, and very 

 rarely four are used for the strongest kinds, al- 

 though this number is unnecessary. The lowest 

 wire is stretched at eighteen, twenty-four or thirty 

 inches from the ground, and the two upper ones 



10. THE SECOND SEASON Ol'" UPRIGHT TRAINING. 



are placed at distances of eighteen or twenty inches 

 apart. 



The second season after planting should see the 

 vine tied to the first wire. Fig. lo is a photograph 

 taken in July, 1892, of a Concord vine which was 

 set in the spring of 1891. In the fall of 1891 the 

 vine was cut back to three or four buds, and in the 

 spring of 1892 two of these buds were allowed to 



