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EXPLANATION OF PLATE lo. 



a, a, a, ^c. The young bearing wood of a vine trained 

 in a serpentine manner, with the buds for the present year ap- 

 pearing. These shoots are generally cut out in the winter 

 pruning, as low as c, c, c, ^c, to produce wood for next year. 



The shoots ^, ^c, produce fruit in the usual manner, 

 also y^oung wood for the following year, which roust not be top- 

 ped, but only have the sidt shoots picked off. Two or three 

 of the strongest young shoots from each of those b, by will 

 t)e sufficient and they must be laid in at full length. 



