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apex, and down to the south wall, for the house runs east and west. 

 From this main stem five laterals are trained towards each end of the 

 house — one at the apex, the others equidistant between the apex and 

 the walls. Mr. Thomson, in the new edition of his admirable trea- 

 tise on the Grape Vine, says, " The last time I saw it was in 1864, 

 when it had a full crop of excellent grapes, weighing, as I have since 

 learned, four hundred and seventy-six pounds, and in 1866 it had a 

 crop of three hundred bunches, some of them weighing five pounds 

 each. It took seven years to furnish the house with bearing wood. 

 The girth of the stem where it enters the house is, at this date 

 (May, 1867), fourteen inches." 



The question may arise with those who contemplate the planting 

 of vineries, how to bridge over the space of time required for the 

 filling up of the house by one vine? This is easy enough, and there 

 are several ways of doing it. The simplest method that occurs to us 

 at this moment would be as follows : — Suppose the house to be a span 

 running east and west. "We should form on the south side a long 

 border of a rather poor nature, and consisting in great part of sandy 

 loam, with an admixture of broken bricks and two-inch bones. This 

 would be the border for the permanent vine, which we would carry 

 into the house in the centre, with a view to train it right and left, 

 and thus by degrees fill the whole house with it. On the oppo- 

 site side we would make a narrow, shallow border of very light, rich 

 soil, and in this we would plant sufficient vines to furnish every 

 rafter at once with a fruiting rod. As the permanent vine could be 

 extended, we should remove these temporary ones, and in the course 

 of a few years they would all be gone, and we should have the bor- 

 ders for other purposes. In a house running north and south, it 

 would scarcely matter on which side the permanent border was placed. 

 A writer in a contemporary, treating upon this subject, says : — 

 '• There is no reason that, a house should remain partly unstocked 

 until one vine fills it. We say, plant each rafter — in duplicate if 

 you please ; but if one, three, or six vines will, by allowing them to 

 develop themselves, adjust the balance of force better than twelve or 

 eighteen smaller plants crowded together, then we say, let Mature 

 assert her prerogative, and let us acc:pt the superior results which 

 she offers. In planting with a view to the cumulative system, fix the 

 sites for the one or more vines which are intended ultimately to 

 occupy the house, filling in with secondary plants, and let it be a rule 

 that the permanent vines shall not be over-cropped, and that the 

 secondary ones shall be made quite subservient to the others. To 

 illustrate what we mean, it may be mentioned that in a vinery planted 

 last season with thirty-two vines, we intend to reduce the number 

 ultimately to eight, and it will be done in this manner. The vines, 

 now standing in line, will be reduced to groups of four plants. Prom 

 one of the two centre points in each group a branch will be carried 

 this season, and be inarched upon the other, and that completed, two 

 other shoots will be carried to fill the space of the outside vines. In 

 this manner the force of two sets of roots will be retained to support 

 one vine, as we anticipate, with corresponding success. When the 

 late Sir J. Paxton first went to Chatsworth, he planted duplicate 



