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GARDEN TRELLISES. 
Perhaps nowhere is the want of systematic training and prun- 
ing of the vine more glaringly exhibited than on the private garden 
trellises. The second of the two ac- 
companying illustrations forcibly ex- 
hibits such amateurish method of 
training and pruning vines. There 
the vines are allowed to grow without N 
restraint, and at pruning time canes 
are bent and directed in the most 
fanciful manner to fill a gap here and 
there. These vines, which are gen- 
erally grown in close proximity to the 
house, as a rule receive more atten- 
tion: they are manured, sulphured, 
the ground is dug round them, 
and as they bear well the owner 
takes little or no trouble in the 
first years of their growth to 
train them with some sort of method, 
until with years his mistakes are made 
apparent to him. The lower buds are 
robbed by the higher ones, they get NY 
feebler and feebler, and at last cease > 
to grow at all; the sides of the trellis NN =j 
become denuded, and all the energy NI is 4 
of the vines is spent on the top. The si Sie ae 
sketch printed in these pages illus- 
trates a method of training vines on 
the home trellis which, if copied, will 
result in the owner deriving from his 
vines both shelter and fruit. The 
sketch is drawn to scale, the vines 
planted six feet apart, and trained 
with one permanent arm only. On 
that arm, at intervals of 10 to 12 
inches, spurs are left and cut back to 
two eyes, unless the vine shows a 
tendeney of running riot, in which 
case one of the methods of pruning Sy = 
reviewed in a previous chapter on NG 
pruning, and preferably the modified 
Cazenave method, may be adopted. 
This method consists in leaving on 
the permanent arms one or several 
long rods supplied with five to ten 
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Training Vines on the Garden Trellis, 
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