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cold grapery. Set the vines six or eight feet apart, or 

 raise them from cuttings at that distance, as before directed. 

 Cut back the second year's growth of the cutting (the first 

 if a vine is planted) to two buds the next winter. Allow 

 these the ensuing season, to form two upright shoots (as 

 in the bow method before described), which should be fas- 

 tened to stakes. The next winter form the trellis by setting 

 a post two feet deep, and firmly in the earth, between every 

 two vines. To these attach the coping, and let the post at 

 each end of the boards be of unequal length, varying an inch 

 or so, that the water may run off. The bars may be made of 

 laths, or 'No. 10 or 12 wire, fastened by staples. The first 

 bar should be one foot from the earth, and the others should 

 be that distance apart. Now bring doAvn the two upright 

 shoots, and fasten them each side to the lower bar of the 

 trellis. Shorten them at two and a half to four feet from 

 the main stem according to the distance between the vines. 

 The next season, allow upright shoots to grow a foot 

 apart, and stop them when they reach the top of the trel- 

 lis. The trellis is now full of vines. 



After the trellis is filled with upright shoots ,as above, 

 in the renewal system of training, at the next pruning 

 every other upright shoot is cut down within an inch of 

 the main arm of the vine. The upright shoots that are 

 left will bear, the coming summer, and from the stump of 

 each upright cane removed, a young shoot is trained to take 

 its place the succeeding year. At the next winter prun- 

 ing, this is left to bear fruit, and the shoots which bore the 

 preceding: season are cf'.t down in their turn to an inch of 

 the main arm, from which young shoots are trained to pro- 

 duce fruit a year after. In this mode of pruning both na- 

 tive and foreign vines, the largest bunches and the best 

 crops for a course of years are obtained. 



The plan of protecting Grrapes by a coping to prevent 



