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APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES. 



mode of training the Vine {fig. 34), in which many 

 of the stems are carried to very considerable distances, 

 seems to depend in some measure upon this principle ; 



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and there is a well-known Black Hamburg Grape at 

 Bath, growing in a garden formerly belonging to Mr. 

 Farrant, the stem of which, owing to local circum- 

 stances, is necessarily conveyed to a very considera- 

 ble distance before it is allowed to produce its bearing 

 branches, the quality of whose fruit is of very un- 

 usual excellence. These facts seem capable of being 

 applied to many important improvements in fruit ma- 

 nagement. 



