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last /or ever, without paint and without any kind 

 of trouble. — Now, then, bear in mind, that each of 

 these Plats, is, from East to V/est, 70 feet long, 

 Each will, therefore, take four vines, allowing to 

 each vine an extent of 16 feet, and something more 

 for overrunning branches. — Look, now, at Plate 

 III, which exhibits, in all its dimensions, the cut- 

 ting' become a plant, Fig. 1. The first year of its 

 being a vine after the leaves are off and before 

 pruning. Fig. 2. The same year's vine pruned 

 in winter. Fig. 3. The vine, in the next summer, 

 with shoots, leaves, and grapes, Fig. 4. — Having 

 measured your distances, put in a cutting at each 

 place where there is to be a vine. You are to leave 

 two joints or buds out of ground. From these v/ill 

 come tivo shoots perhaps ; and, if two come, rub 

 off the top one and leave the bottom one, and, in 

 winter, cut off the bit of dead wood which will, in 

 Ihis case, stand above the bottom shoot. Choose, 

 Jiowever, the upper one to remain, if the lower one 

 be very weak. Or, a better way is, to put in two 

 or three cuttings within an inch or two of each 

 other, leaving only one bud to each out of ground, 

 and taking away, in the fall, the cuttings that send 

 up the weakest shoots. The object is to get one 

 good shoot, coming out as near to the ground as 

 possible. — This shoot you tie to an upright stick, 

 letting it ^row its full length. When winter comes, 

 cut this shoot down to the bud nearest to the 

 ground. — The next year another, and a much 

 stronger shoot will come out ; and, when the leaves 

 are off, in the fall, this shoot will be eight or ten 

 feet long, having been tied to a stake as it rose, 

 and will present what is described in Fig. 1, Plate 

 III. You must make your trelis ; that is, put in 

 your upright Locust-bars to tie the next summer's 



