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at the end of the fall, every year, by rolling them on a 

 sort of reel [Fig. 70], and they are replaced in the same 

 manner, at the beginning of spring. When the time 

 has arrived for fastening the shoots, they are, first of 

 all, fixed on the lower wire, after it has been properly 

 stretched, and then to the upper one ; on this second 



wire, the shoots of each 

 plant are divided into 

 two portions : one of 

 these is tied, by a single 

 string, to one-half the 

 shoots of the right-hand 

 plant, the other is sim- 

 ilarly tied to one-half 

 the shoots of the left-- 

 hand plant, This sys- 

 tem of support allows 

 of a great reduction in 

 the number of stakes, 

 and the shoots are so 



disposed as to receive 

 [Fig. yo.}— Reel, for Winding ^^^ f^^n ^^^j^^ ^f j^e 



up the Wires. ^^^^ ^^^ there is no 



means of tightening the wires, and the consequent ne- 

 cessity of removing and replacing them, every year, is 

 expensive. 



[The French Government had so high an appreciation of 

 this improvement and contribution to the advancement of the 

 interests of the vine, that a beautifiil gold medal was awarded 

 to him for the invention. F. Andrew Michaux was the 

 great historian of American trees, the author of Sylva Ameri' 

 cana. While engaged, for many years, among the primitive 



