. Successful fruit culture; a practical guide to the cultivation and propagation of fruits. Fruit-culture. THE GRAPE 119 ends, two good posts are made of what usually makes but one. The posts are set from twenty to thirty feet apart, according to the weight of the vines, or even a greater distance, and small stakes are put in between. Two or three wires are used for the support of the vines, according to the method of training. If the vines are trained as in Figure 65, known as the Kniffin system, only two wires are needed, but if more than two canes are grown, more wires will be needed. Wire
. Successful fruit culture; a practical guide to the cultivation and propagation of fruits. Fruit-culture. THE GRAPE 119 ends, two good posts are made of what usually makes but one. The posts are set from twenty to thirty feet apart, according to the weight of the vines, or even a greater distance, and small stakes are put in between. Two or three wires are used for the support of the vines, according to the method of training. If the vines are trained as in Figure 65, known as the Kniffin system, only two wires are needed, but if more than two canes are grown, more wires will be needed. Wire makes the best support, as it is the cheapest, the most durable, and the vines will support themselves more or less by their tendrils without tying. Fo. 14 and No. 16 galvanized wire are the sizes most in use. The wires are fas- tened to the posts or stakes by the common wire fence staples, the top wire being placed on the top of the post. The hight of the posts varies in dif- ferent localities from five to six feet and they should be planted from three to three and one-half feet deep, to be beyond the action of frost. Chestnut and cedar posts will last from twelve to fifteen years, and should be renewed before quite rotted off, that the weight of the vines does not break them over when loaded with fruit. The wires are stretched on the trellis with the common wire fence stretcher. Many devices are employed to brace the end posts; the most common perhaps is to put in a short post six to eight feet from the end of trellis and brace to that. Another is to run the wire over the end post and sink a heavy stone about three feet deep around which the wire is wound, as shown in Figure 66. This latter method. PijC. 65—The Kniffin System of Grape Trainine. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maynard, Sam
Size: 2243px × 1114px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectfruitculture, bookyea
