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say, 2,240 pounds Avoirdupois weight. That vine 

 covers a space of about 40 feet in length and 20 in 

 breadth. And your two trelises, being, together, 

 128 feet long, and 4 deep, would form a space of 

 more than half the dimensions of the vine of 

 Hampton Court. However, suppose you have 

 only a fifth part of what you might have, a hun- 

 dred bunches of grapes are worth a great deal 

 more than the annual trouble, which is, indeed, 

 very little. Fig. 4 shows a vine in summer. You 

 see the four shoots hearing, and four other shoots 

 coming on for the next year, from the butts left at 

 the winter pruning, as at h. These four latter you 

 are to tie to the bars as they advance on during the 

 summer. — When winter comes again, you are to 

 cut off the four shoots that sent out the bearers 

 during the summer, and leave the four that grew 

 out of the butts. Cut the four old shoots that have 

 borne, so as to leave but one bud at the butt. And 

 they will then be sending out wood, while the other 

 four will be sending out fruit. ,And thus you go on 

 year after year for your life ; for, as to the vine, i-t 

 will, if well treated, outlive you and your children 

 to the third and even thirtieth generation. I think 

 they say, that the vine at Hampton Court was 

 planted in the reign of King William. — During the 

 summer there are two things to be observed, as to 

 pruning. Each of the last yearns shoots has 32 

 buds, and, of course, it sends out 32 shoots with 

 the grapes on them, for the grapes come out of the 

 2 first fair buJs of these shoots. So that here 

 would be an enormous quantity of wood, if it were 

 all left till the end of summer. But, this must not 

 be. When the grapes get as big as peas, cut off 

 the green shoots that bear them, at two buds dis- 

 tance from the fruit. This is necessary in order to 

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