. The gardens, poultry, and bees; embracing. Gardening; Poultry; Bees. 32 THE FARM. 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. You must. make your trellis, that is, put in your upright locust bars to tie the next summer's shoots to. Four wires should run along the face of these posts, one the first one foot and a half from the ground; the others one foot apart. They may be fastened to the posts, which may be sixteen feet apart, by st
. The gardens, poultry, and bees; embracing. Gardening; Poultry; Bees. 32 THE FARM. 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. You must. make your trellis, that is, put in your upright locust bars to tie the next summer's shoots to. Four wires should run along the face of these posts, one the first one foot and a half from the ground; the others one foot apart. They may be fastened to the posts, which may be sixteen feet apart, by staples or large nails. These wires furnish admirable supports for the side-spurs, and are very quickly and cheaply applied. You will want eight shoots to come out to run horizontally, to be tied to these bars. You must now then, in winter, cut off your vines, leaving eight buds or joints, as at a fig. 1. During summer eight shoots will come, and, as they proceed on, they must be tied with matting, or something soft, to the bars. The whole vine, both ways included, is supposed to go sixteen feet; but if your tillage be good, it will go much furtier, and then the ends must be cut off in winter. Now, then, winter presents you your vine, as in fig. 2 ; YOU must prune, which is the all-important part of the business. Ob- serve and bear in mind, that little or no fruit ever comes on a grape- vine, except on young shoots that come out of wood of the last year. All the four last years' shoots that you find would send out bearers, but if you suffer that, you will have a great parcel of small wood, and little or no fruit next year. Therefore, cut off four of the last year's shoots, as may be seen at b, fig. 3, leaving only one bud. The four other shoots will send out a shoot from every one of their buds, and if the vine be strong, there will be two bunches of grapes on each of these young shoots ; and as the last year's shoots are supposed to be each eight feet long, and as there generall
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