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first year, however, these branches are trained obliquely, 

 as they would not bear being bent and confined to their 

 destined horizontal position till the next year, when both are 

 finally secured to the trellis in the same horizontal line. 



The second cordon, [or horizontal line of branches,] 

 being at two feet distance from the ground, cannot be 

 formed as soon as the first ; the third will be still later, 

 and so on. Whatever be the height you design to ad- 

 vance your stalk or stem, you ought not to advance it 

 more than twelve or fifteen inches each year, and pre- 

 serve its lateral buds to increase its growth, and furnish 

 fruit. But as soon as the stem has reached the requi- 

 site height, it is absolutely necessary to suppress and cut 

 off all lateral buds on the main stem throughout. 



Let us now suppose, that all the stems have arrived at 

 their required or destined height, and that the two last 

 branches are extended, the one to the right and the other 

 to the left, to form the two arms of the cordon, [horizontal 

 branches ;] we will now show how these two arms are to 

 be cut, till they have gained the length of four feet each. 



The first year you will cut so as to leave three good eyes 

 or buds, from four to six inches apart. Two of these 

 eyes will form bearing wood ; the third will be employed to 

 lengthen the branch. Care must be taken to train verti- 

 cally the shoots destined to bear the fruit ; the other is 

 trained obliquely the first year, and bent down and secured 

 in its horizontal position afterwards. At the second pru- 

 ning, the bearing shoots thus trained vertically must be cut, 

 leaving only two eyes, or buds; and the terminal branch 

 must in like manner be so trimmed, as that there will be 

 three eyes, two of which will be reserved for bearers, and 

 the third to prolong the shoot, as in the former year ; and 

 so proceed till each lateral branch shall have reached the 

 length of four feet. Each branch ought then to have 

 eight bearing eyes or shoots, all, if possible, on the upper 

 side. When all the five plants shall have reached their 

 height and length, you will have, on a surface of eight feet 

 square, eighty coursons, or bearing branches, of two eyes 

 each, each producing two branches, which will each bear 

 at least two bunches of excellent grapes, or three hundred 

 and twenty bunches on eight feet square of surface, [sixty- 

 four square feet.] 



According to Mr. Loudon, at Montreuil they practise a 



