. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 9oy. A vineyard in its first summer. wire ttnce, as shown in Fig. *dC}i^] but rhe Kuillin systt-ia t-mits the bottom wire. The vineyardists of the Chautauqua (irape bt-It hare tieveloped a mode of pruning and training of Urapes which has many features peculiar to that district. The trellis is made of two wires,
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 9oy. A vineyard in its first summer. wire ttnce, as shown in Fig. *dC}i^] but rhe Kuillin systt-ia t-mits the bottom wire. The vineyardists of the Chautauqua (irape bt-It hare tieveloped a mode of pruning and training of Urapes which has many features peculiar to that district. The trellis is made of two wires, of No. 0 or Xo. 10 gauge, and chestnut posts. The posts are from l_i to 8 feet in length, and cost 1 cent per lineal f<n,it at tlie raih'oad station. In later years, since experience has shown Imw important air and sunshine are in ripening tlic fruit, S-foot posts arc most eomniuuly used, (.-irapi- post'^ should be somewhat heavier tlian those cumniDnl}' used for wire fence âfrom one-third to one-half larger âami the heaviest should be sorted out for the end posts, for these bear the strain of the wire. An experienced farmer need not be told that they should be sharpened with a true lead-pencil tapfr, exot'pting the crooked "Qes, which should be so beveled as to cunteract the I'rook in driving. The usual distance apart for the posts in the row of 'irapes is one post to every three vines, ur, in other words, 27 feet, and for ease in stretching the wire, they should be in as straight a line as possible. The posts are driven, but a hole should first be made by an unusu- ally large crowbar with a bulb near the lower end. After the posts are stuck into the holes, they are most conveniently driven by the operator standing in a wagon which is hauled through the row by a horse. A fair weight of maul is 12 pounds, and it requires a good man to swing one of that size all day. Iron mauls are com- monly used because they are the cheapest, but one with an iron shell filled with w
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