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A free and regular circulation of air should now 

 be encouraged, and less or more must be admitted 

 every day; observing the rules given above for air- 

 ing tlie cherry-house, with Tes}>t^ct to giving and 

 taking it away by degrees. 



With regard to pruning and training, the direc- 

 tions given last month are to be followed; and if 

 there be an muler trellis, on which to ti'ain the sum- 

 mer shoots, (see the article Trellising, Section I.), 

 they should now be let down to it, that the fruit 

 may enjoy the full air and light, as it advaiices to- 

 wards maturity. Such of these shoots as issue from 

 the bottom, and are to be shortened in the winter- 

 pruning to a few eyes, m.erely for the production 

 of wood to fill the trellis, maybe stopped when they 

 have grown to the length .of four or five feet. 

 Others tliat are intended to be cut down to about 

 two yards, and which issue at difterent heights, mav 

 be stopped when they have vim three yards or ten 

 feet, less or more, according to their strength. And 

 those intended to be cut at, or near to, the top of 

 the house, should be trained a yard or two down the 

 back-wall, (a trellis being placed against it iwirpose- 

 ly) j or ^liey may be run right or left a few feet on 

 the uppermost wire. 



I would here observe, tliat in order to be a good 

 trainer of vines, and be able to provide for a crop 

 •the following season, a man must have some fore- 

 thought, and be capable of making his selections, 

 as the plants shoot, even at this distance of time- 

 He must predetermine hovi he shall ])rune, and 

 \vber,e he shall cut, at \he end of the season; and 



