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inches, they should be trained perpendicularly up the walls. These, 

 if strong and well matured, may be left their whole length at the 

 winter pruning, and, the following spring, two young rods should be 

 trained up, at a distance of twelve inches from the base of the others 

 — that on the right of the main stem, on the inside, and that on the 

 left, on the outside of the perpendicular rods. By this system the 

 latter will always be kept at a regular distance apart, and the lateral 

 growth will have ample space for development. For the forcing 

 the second rod on the left, it will be necessary to select a strong 

 shoot at the base of the first, and train it the proper distance hori- 

 zontally, and then take it up in the manner mentioned above ; if more 

 than two 'bearing rods are required on each vine, a new cane, in the 



Fig. 2. — Training Outdoor Vines to Walls of Dwelling- Houses. 



manner here mentioned, can be taken up each season, until the 

 requisite number is obtained. Fig. 2 is a fair example of the st\ le 

 of training here recommended, but there should be four rods on each 

 side of the windows. 



After the space is fully occupied, the canes which have borne 

 fruit should, at the winter pruning, be pruned back to within a few 

 inches of their base, and the young canes indicated by the dotted 

 lines shortened back to their proper length, and allowed to bear a 

 crop of fruit the following season. In the spring, a number of shoots 

 will push from the base of the cane pruned back in the winter, and 

 the strongest must be selected for training up to take the place of 

 the one removed. This, in its turn, will have to take the place of the 

 present fruit-bearing cane, and, in its turn, have to make way for 

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