156 OF PRUNING* SECT. XIi: 



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Pines require frequent attention, as to pruning and 

 traiaing ; but all will avail little, if they have "not a 

 warm soil, and full sun, or some accidental advan-. 

 tage, as being planted at the back of a warm chim- 

 ney.; and though they will grow and bear leaves any 

 where, they will not fruit well in England, without a 

 favourable season, or hot summer. 



Yowig new planted vines should be pruned quite 

 short, for two or three years, that they may get 

 strong. If the plant has a weak root, not above one 

 shoot ought to grow the first year, which should be 

 cut down in autumn, to two or three eyes. 



The best time for the principal, or winter pruning 

 of vines, is as soon as the fruit is off, or leaves begin 

 to fall. November does very well, and if this month 

 passes, February should be adopted, rather than 

 quite in the winter. Late in the spring tli'ey are apt 

 to bleed by cutting, which greatly weakens them. 



The mode of bearing in vines is only on shoots of 

 the present year, proceeding from year old wood. 

 The rule, therefore, at winter pruning is, to reserve 

 such shoots of the year that are best situated as to 

 room, for training of those shoots that are to come 

 from them, which will be almost one from every 

 eye. Make choice of those that are placed towards 

 the middle, or stem, that all the wall may be covered 

 with bearing wood ; and every year cut some old 

 wood out that reaches far, to make room for younger 

 to follow. 



The form that a vine takes on the w^all is various, 

 and not very material, whether it be more horizontal, 

 or perpendicular. The form must be governed ac- 

 cording to the space of walling allotted to it ; some- 

 times it has ample room, as at the gable end of a 

 house, and sometimes it is confined to a low wall, 

 or between trees, windows, &c. The reserved shoot* 



