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system of filling one house with from one to four vines, 

 providing there is ample scope either in the way of 

 made borders of prepared soils, or of natural soil of a 

 suitable description for the roots to push into and feed 

 on. 



Say the vinery is a span, eighty feet long and thirty 

 feet wide. A vine is planted in each corner and trained 

 up under the roof glass to the trellis in the first year. 

 At pruning time, the rods are shortened back a little, the 

 side shoots being cut hard back, and then tied hori- 

 zontally to the bottom of the trellis, in which direction 

 the young leading growth is trained ; side shoots being 

 selected and trained up the trellis under the roof at from 

 three to four feet apart to form individual main rods, 

 these being stopped two or three times during the grow- 

 ing season in the manner recommended under the head- 

 ing of " Disbudding and Stopping," the pruning being 

 the same as advised for young vines in the first year, 

 and so on in each succeeding year until the house is 

 furnished with bearing wood. Supernumeraries planted 

 at the same time as the four permanent vines would 

 yield a fair crop of grapes in the following and succeed- 

 ing years until the permanent vines came into bearing. 

 One should root out or cut off close to the ground the 

 temporary canes one after another, commencing at each 

 corner of the house next to the permanent rods, as the 

 latter furnish the space allotted to them on the trellis with 

 bearing wood; completing the "rooting out process" in 

 the middle of the vinery on either side. If more varieties 

 than one are required in the house, grafting or inarching 

 will satisfy the demand in a short space of time. 



BLEEDING 



Young, vigorously-growing vines, even when the 

 wood is thoroughly ripened, sometimes have a tendency 

 to bleed, either immediately after being pruned, or 



