140 OPEN AIR GEAPE -CULTURE. 



vineyards and gardens in the northern States where 

 our native vines are cultivated is substantially the 

 system explained by Hoare. The system pursued in 

 Ohio and in many European vineyards, is also a 

 modification of the long-rod system, but as we pro 

 pose to give a full account of Ohio vine culture 

 amongst our examples of American vineyard prac 

 tice, we need not dwell upon it here. 



The following are a few of the most elegible modi 

 fications which have been proposed : 



Mr. John M earns, in the Horticultural Transactions, 

 (vol. iv.) describes a system which is not only well 

 adapted to the hot-house culture of the vine, but is 

 one of the best with which we are acquainted where 

 it is desired to fruit quickly, a great variety of grape 

 vines in a small place. This method is as follows : 



&quot; My method of managing vines is in some respects 

 different from any other with which I am acquainted ; 

 by it I have never failed, for the last eleven years, to 

 obtain invariably the same luxuriant crops, although 

 I have never allowed above one-third of the bunches 

 which showed themselves to remain on the vine ; and 

 each succeeding crop has been as uniform as if the 

 branches had been placed, artificially, over the whole 

 roof. I have no doubt but, under the same treat, 

 ment, the vines will continue to be equally produc 

 tive for any length of time. The shoots are so vigor- 



