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This is, in fact, the general practice, as may be seen by 

 comparing the vineyards of the southern, middle, and 

 northern regions. 



These principles being admitted, let us see what are 

 the principal forms which have been adopted, and as- 

 certain which are best adapted to the vine. 



The various forms now used in the vineyards are all 

 comprised in the three following : 



[Fig. 28.] — High-trained Fines.J 



1st. High-trained Vines. — rThis shape is a common 

 one in Italy and Spain, in the southern portion of 

 Dauphiny, in the Bigorre, and in Beam, and can succeed 

 in warm latitudes only. This mode consists in planting 

 trees fourteen to sixteen feet in hight, in rows eighty 

 to ninety feet apart, and the trees twenty-five feet from 

 each other, on level land, and fifteen feet apart on the 

 hills. For this purpose, the maple is used, the wild 

 mulberry, the wild cherry, the plum-tree, and those of 

 the hardier descriptions generally, and having few leaves. 

 When these trees have taken root, two or three vine- 



