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young viaeyards. During the first year, sucL. strangers 

 may be admitted ; but forever thereafter, notbing but 

 grapevines have any business in a vineyard. 



As a general rule, I may add, that the cleaner 

 the vines and ground are at all times kept, the 

 better. Never go into a vineyard in wet weather, nor 

 trim the vines while they are much wet. Keep the 

 ground mellow, and in the most superior tillable order. 

 Keep out of a vineyard, unless you have special busi- 

 ness in it. The less one walks about in it, the better. 

 To walk about a vineyard, after a rain, must do it 

 serious injury. Keep visitors and the idly curious also 

 out of your vineyard. No man or woman has any 

 business in a vineyard, except the vine-dresser, and he 

 only when working or tending it. 



"VESTEYAED STAKES." 



The manner of putting these in, and the manner oj 

 staking out a vineyard^ is a matter of more moment thau 

 is generally supposed. Vineyards are often much dis- 

 figured by too heavy and unsightly stakes, resembhng 

 fence-rails, which are also injurious from the heavy 

 shade they cast. Stakes should be perfectly straight, 

 well seasoned, and not more than two inches square. 



