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ever, to raise grapes merely for table use — either for 

 one's family or for market — a different mode, in some 

 respects, may well be pursued, and instead of training 

 the vines upon stakes, trellise work may be adopted. 



I may say that the mode of staking out, indicated as 

 the Palatinate method, Fig. 14, may form the general 

 basis for trellises. The vines, instead of being four feet 

 apart, should then be from eight to twelve, and the 

 stakes or posts at least eight feet long above ground. 



For trellis planting, I would specially recommend, 

 never to plant close to the walls of houses or fences, 

 since such close planting injures the building, and be- 

 sides, subjects vines to all kinds of insects which axe 

 apt to prey upon them. It impedes, also, the proper 

 cultivation at all seasons of the year. The distance 

 from houses and walls should be at least four feet, and 

 the trellises formed over shaded walks, which may be 

 made in almost endless variety. Such trellises should 

 be on the south side of houses, &c., and every chance 

 afforded for air and sun to operate upon every part of 

 the vine. The early training of the vines is similar to 

 the mode already described, except that they should 

 be planted not less than eight feet apart. Less care need 

 be taken for the formation of the " head," near the 

 ground, and less attention need be paid to the boughs, 

 as well as to the renovation of the thighs. Some form 

 the head three to five feet from the ground, and then 



