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FRUITS. 

 PLATE 8. 



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The first year of its being a vine, after the leaves are off and 

 before pruning ^ is exhibited in fig. 2. The same year's vine, 

 pruned in February, is exhibited in fig. 3. The vine, in its next 

 summer, is exhibited, with shoots, leaves, and grapes, in fig. 4. 

 Having measured your distances, put m a cutting at each place 

 where there is to be a vine, leaving above ground only two joints 

 or buds. From these will come two 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 this 

 case, stand above the bottom shoot. Choose, however, 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 of each 

 other, leaving only one hud to each out of the 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 grow 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 8. You must take your trellis ; that is, put in your 



