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twigs arising from the pruning, so as to make so many 

 little bundles, tied together with a vine-slip. These 

 bundles, about sixteen inches long, and having a diam- 

 eter of about eight inches, are fastened horizontally 

 above each plant, by making them cross each stake, 



This process, which 

 is not more expens- 

 ive than the first, also 

 gives very good re- 

 sults, by almost en- 

 tirely preventing the 

 [Fig. loo.yshelter made by effects of radiation. 

 Fine- Twigs. For vines submitr- 



ted to the process of pruning we have recommended, it 

 will be sufficient to fasten the bundle of twigs by means 

 of a single tie, on the wire above each of the fruit- 

 stems, as shown in Figure 100 ; or we 

 may, with advantage, use bundles of 

 brushwood of any kind, such as heath- 

 er, fern-leaves, etc., and these will 

 weigh less on the vines, 



Mr. George Perrier, a wine-grower 

 of Ay (Marne), has contrived a plan 

 analogous to the preceding, but which 

 we consider preferable. Twigs of the 

 broom-plant are put together in the 

 shape of a fan, and fixed to the end of 

 a stick, the length of which may vary 

 according to need [Fig. loi]. This 

 is stuck into the ground, so that the 

 Shelter made of fan may take a slanting direction, suc}i 

 the Broom-Plant, as will shelter the pla,nt from the rising 



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