SECT. XII* OI PRUNING* 149 



fhoots that will be produced, which always grow very 

 long. It there is room, three, four,. or five eyes -may 

 be left, but not more to any (boot, except it is cleiirable 

 to extend fame fhoot to a diftance to fill up a particular 

 {pace, and then eight or nine eyes may be left, which 

 being repeated again another year, and fo on, a vine 

 will Toon reach far. 



Sometimes vines are trained on low wails by a long 

 extended horizontal branch, a few inches from the 

 ground, as a mother bearer. Thofe fhoots that come 

 trom this horizontal are to be trained perpendicularly,- 

 and cut down to one or two eyes every year, that they 

 may not encroach, too fail on the fpace above them. 

 If the vine is confined to a narrow but lofty fpace, it is 

 to be trained to an extended perpendicular mother bearer, 

 having fbort lateral fhoots pruned down to a ungle eye,, 

 or at molt two. The management of vines requires 

 fevtre cutting, that they may not be too full, in the 

 lummer, for they put out a great deal of wood, and ex- 

 tend, their moots to a great length ; and therefore the. 

 young pruner mult refolve to cut out enough, 



An alternate mode of pruning vines is practiced by 

 fome, one fhoot fhort, and another long; i. e. one with 

 two eyes, and another with four or five. Severe cutting, 

 does not hurt vines, and make them unfruitful as it 

 does other trees; and therefore, -where fhort of room, 

 they may be pruned down to a firigle bud, as the cafe 

 requires. 



The Jummer mdnagemeni of vinesmuft.be carefully 

 attended to. As foon as the young lhoots can be~nailed 

 to the wall, let them not be neglected ; but remember 

 they are very tender, and will not bear much bending: 

 train in only the well-placed lhoots, rubbing or break- 

 ing off the others. The embryo fruit is foon feen in the 

 bofom of the fhoot, and thole thus furnifhed are of 

 courfe to be laid in, as many as can be found room for, 

 in preference to thofe lhoots that are barren, which ne- 

 verthelefs mould alfo be trained, if thev are flrong and 

 H J well 



