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In the year 1789 I let two strong branches groW 
to their full length %mthout topping them in the sum¬ 
mer, In 1790 I trained them in a serpentine form, 
leaving about thirty eyes on each shoot, which pro¬ 
duced 120 bunches of grapes, weighing from one 
pound to one pound and a quarter each. The grapes 
ere fine and large ; while those produced from 
branches of the sameMne^ framed and pruned in the . 
old way, ’were bad natured grapes^ and not above 
twice the size ofi large currants. 
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More fully to prove the success attending this | 
expniment, I next year trained live plants in the | 
same way, allowing the shoots intended for bearing j 
wood, to rim to their/iz// length in summer^ without | 
topping them. In winter (in the fail or spring in j 
America) I trained them in a serpentine manner, j 
so as to fill the wall as regularly as possible. They i 
■were as productive as those in the former year. I 
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After a three years trial I thought I was war- | 
ranted to follow the same practice with the whole ^ | 
and in the year 1793, I gathered 378 baskets of I 
grapes, about 31b. weight each-—the same vine hav- | 
ing the preceding year, produced only 56 baskets 
of the same weight, and those so bad and ill-ripen- ! 
ed, that they were not fit to be sent to the table.—> j 
Thus, without planting a single additional vine, ; 
this new method produced about seven times the | 
quantity according to the former method. ; 
