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Show Strange Effect of Girdling Gliape vises. Among tbe experi-mentd experi-mentd with the grapevine at Amkerst Agricultural college, girdling has produced eome remarkablo results, both in the quality of tbe fruit and the period of development. The vinea were girdled about the first week in August, when the free acid of the Concord grape had reached its highest high-est Btate, and tbe cape sugar had begun to increase. Experiments were made with wbo.'o vines and with branches. Two incisions were made through the hark and cambium layer, from one-eighth to one quarter of an inch in whtih, and the Bubatance betwsen rc-moved. The fruit on the girdled vines matured fully two weeks in advance of the un-girdled un-girdled vines. Professor Goessnian picked tully matured fruit from a girdltd viue a: his reddened, fully three weeks in advance of the fruit on tha ungirdied branches of the eanie vino. The vines that were girdled a year ago were in fine condition thij loason, and, although in most instances in-stances lully healed over, iho gird-lings gird-lings Beemed to produce, the same eflect on the fruit ns the first year. Amherst (M.ies.) Transcript, |