AND ON COTTAGES. 



of the finest description of fruit-buds. This is the key to the production 

 of large bunches of fruit, which are not the necessary consequence of very 

 large-sized bearing shoots, but rather of sap that has been accumulated and 

 highly elaborated by slowness of growth in combination with full exposure 

 to the sun's rays," (p. 106.) In nailing, linen or cotton shreds are by some 

 preferred to woollen ones, as being less retentive of moisture ; but, on the 

 other hand, they produce a greater chill, in consequence of the more rapid 

 evaporation which they afford ; and they should in general be from three- 

 fourths of an inch to one inch and a half in breadth, according to the size 

 of the shoot. 



984. Mr. Hoare's mode of training. Figs. 349 to 353 will give an idea 

 of Mr. Hoare's mode of training, with some variations. Fig. 349 shows a 

 J vine of two years' growth, cut down to two eyes; but of the 



JJP shoots produced from these eyes, one is rubbed off when the 

 Fig. 3^*Mr. other is firmly established, so that only one is matured. In 

 Hoare's mode November this shoot is cut down to two eyes, as in fig. 350. 

 ncond" ^ Q snoots produced next summer are treated as before, one 

 from the cut- only being left to come to maturity, and that one is cut down in 

 ting. the November of the fourth year to three eyes, as in fig. 351. 



Next year three shoots will be produced, but as soon as two are firmly 

 established in June or July, the other is cut off, and two only are allowed 

 n to come to maturity. Tendrils, or any appearance 



of bunches, are pinched off as soon as they appear, 

 - ^Lw^ and the shoots, in the last week of August or 

 ^oar^s mlde first week of Se P tember > are stopped. The vine 

 of training, will now be four years of age, and have stood three F i g . 

 third year, years on the spot where it is finally to remain. The Hoare's mode 

 girth of the stem at the surface of the ground will be three inches, j^ ur l^ at ^" lf ' 

 and the plant may be permitted to bear fruit for the first time ; J 

 say not more than 5lbs. weight. For this purpose, Mr. Hoare cuts down 

 the two shoots to the seven lowermost buds on each ; and having trimmed 

 the shoots, they are to be nailed to the wall in a horizontal position, as in 

 fig. 352. This being done in Novem- 

 ber, then, in the February following, 

 cut out of each shoot the first, second, 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth buds, leaving 

 the third and seventh buds on each 

 shoot, to produce shoots, as at a, 6, c, 

 d, in fig. 352. In the course of the 

 summer these four buds will produce 

 four shoots, which may either be 

 trained upright, as at a, or, as Mr. 

 Hoare prefers, in a serpentine manner, 

 as at b; or, as a correspondent sug- 

 gests (965), they may be trained in Fig. 352. Mr. Hoare's mode of training, with 



a sloping direction, as at d. The variations, ffth year. 



object of the curvilinear training, and also of the sloping direction, is to 

 equalise the breaking of the buds the sap in vines, as every one knows, 

 being otherwise apt to expend itself chiefly at the extremities of the shoots. 

 If more bunches are shown than, at the rate of ^lb. each, will produce 



