ON PRUNING HARDY GRAPES. 



are too many buttresses and leantos about it, to suit our " fast" notions in America, and 

 it will rarely, if ever, be copied out of England. Besides that, the gables should be more 

 deeply sheltered by the projecting eaves, indispensable to the due protection of the walls 

 in our climate. With such addition, it would be a fitting model for a country school house 

 in this country. 



Dr. Valk's Native Grape. — The July Horticulturist having come to hand before this, 

 I shall reserve what I have to say on this grape, to coujjle it with the new seedling of Mr. 

 Allen, of Salem, Mass., and perhaps another new thing or two of the sort. 



Glover's Models of Fruits. — In these beautiful and useful specimens is shown what a 

 gentleman of taste and leisure can do — partly for the amusement of his leisure hours, and 

 incidentally to furnish such 



" Imperishable types of of evanescence" 

 to all who love to see their Aivorite fruits in perpetual color and bloom before them. Such 

 specimens should be in the possession of every society who have cognizance of fruits, and 

 Mr. G. is entitled to the lasting gratitude of every pomologist, for his ingenuity and pa- 

 tience in producing them. Jeffrets. 



ON SUMMER PRUNING HARDY GRAPES. 



BY C, LOUISVILLE, KY. 



Dear Sir — In the August number of the Horticulturist for 1846, you present Doctor 

 Lindley's theory of pruning grape vines, and recommend as the result of your experience, 

 the omission of summer pruning — neither to remove the laterals, nor to stop the fruit 

 bearing branches, unless the vines be too thick, when you remove a portion of the branch- 

 es with the fruit entire. Has any recent experience induced you to modify or change the 

 opinion there expressed, respecting summer pruning in open culture? Your correspondent 

 " H. G.," in your last number, on the culture of grapes under glass, directs the shoots 

 to be " constantly stopped a joint or two above the fruit." This severe pruning is no 

 doubt required under glass. 



Mr. Lawrence Young, a horticulturist of some experience, in the May number, page 

 208, speaks of severe summer pruning of the fruit bearing and lateral branches as the only 

 correct practice, acknowledged to be so by all Cultivators, and says that " every body does 

 or may know it to be the proper culture." The writer of this is not satisfied that the cul- 

 ture is correct, though he has given the subject attention during the last eight years. 



One of our successful cultivators on a small scale, has grapevines in this city, twent}^- 

 seven years old, reared from cuttings by himself, which are planted seven feet apart, 

 trained to an upright trellis eight feet high; these vines are pruned in the spring, on the 

 renewal system, allowing three or four canes of the last year's growth to remain, which 

 are trained in short curves, at full length to the trellis; other branches he cuts down 

 to two eyes, to form bearing wood for the next year, then he permits them to grow in a 

 straight diagonal direction until they reach the top of the trellis, when he bends them 

 over and stops them after they have grown about eighteen inches in a downward direction 

 on the ooposite side. All the wood that has borne fruit is cut out the following spring. 

 The fruit bearing shoots from the wood of the previous season, are allowed to grow freely 

 they reach the top of the trellis, when they are stopped, the lateral shoots from 

 not stopped or cut ofi*. 



