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THE GEAPE CULTtTEIST, 



very materially in different varieties, but usually from 

 eight to twelve inches will be the proper distance, some- 

 times wiring at every bud, and with others only at every 

 alternate one. 



It will readily be seen that in this mode of making n 

 trellis, when the young shoots start they can be tied at any 

 time when necessary; and there is no need, nor is it judi- 

 cious, to tie them tight to the wire ; they should be left at 

 least one inch from it, the two shoots being tied to the one 

 wire. The cost of wire is less than when large horizontal' 

 wires are used. The arms should be fastened to the lower 

 bar, either by strips of leather tacked on or by tarred 

 twine tied around the arm and lower bar. It is impossi- 

 ble for me to give anything hke a correct estimate of the 

 cost of building a grape trellis after this plan, because the 

 different materials used in its construction are very variable 

 in price ; besides, that which would constitute the greater 

 part of the expense in one section of the oounti'y might be 

 the least of it in another. Galvanized iron wire should 

 always be used in preference to any other. It costs from 

 three to five cents per pound more than the common an- 

 nealed wire, but its lasting qualities are so much greater 

 that it fully cornpensates for the additional expense. ; 



Fig. 39 shows the relative sizes of such 

 as are commonly used for trellises. Nos. 14 

 and 16 are large enough for the perpendicu- 

 lar wires on such trellises as I have de- 

 scribed I 8 and 10 are the sizes used when 

 put on horizontally. The number of 

 pounds of wire required for a given length 

 of trellis may be readily ascertained by 

 calculating the number of feet required, and then' dividing 

 the amount by the number of feet in a pound, which is as 

 follows : 



8. 10. JZ. 14 16. 



i'ig. 39. 



No. 8. 13 feet to the pound. 

 No. 10. 20 " " " " 

 No. 12. 33 " " " 



No. 14. 54 feet to the pound. 

 No. 16. 102 " " " " 



