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checked ; and they can also be kept under control much 

 better. Figure 7 will show the result of training the 

 second summer, with the method of bracing the trellis. 



Fig. 7. — THE VINE AT THE END OF THE SECOND SEASON. 



Figure 8 gives the vine, pruned and tied, at the end 

 of the second season. Figure 9 represents the manner 

 of training and tying the Catawba and Delaware, or other 

 slow growing kinds. 



The aboye method of training is a combination of the 

 single-cane and fan-training system, which I tried first 

 on the Concord from sheer necessity, when the results 

 pleased me so much, that I have since adopted it with all 



Fig. 8. — THE VINE PRUNED AND TIED. 



the strong growing varieties. The circumstances which 

 led me to the trial of this method, were as follows : In 

 the summer of 1863, when my young Concord vines were 



