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American Grape Training. 



This system allows of close planting, but the trellis 

 is too expBnsive. The trunk soon becomes over- 

 grown with spurs, and it is likely to become prema- 

 turely weak. This style is very rarely used. 



Overhead, or Arbor Kniffiti. — A curious modifica- 

 tion of the Kniffin is employed somewhat on the 

 Hudson, particularly by Sands Haviland at Marl- 

 boro'. The vines are carried up on a kind of over- 



29. OVERHEAD KMIFFIN. 



head arbor, as shown in figs. 28, 29 and 30. The 

 trellis is six feet above the ground, and is composed 

 of three horizontal wires lying in the same plane. 

 The centrar wire runs from post to post, and one 

 upon either side is attached to the end of a three- 

 foot cross-bar, as represented in fig. 28. The rows 

 are nine feet apart, and the vines and posts twelve 

 feet apart in the row. Contiguous rows are braced 

 by a connecting-pole, as in fig. 29. The trunk of 



