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(he production of wood to fill the trellis, may be stopped 

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

 Others that are intended to be cut down to about two yards, 

 and which issue at different heights, may be stopped when 

 they have run three yards, or ten feet, less or more, ac- 

 cording to their strength. And those intended to be cut at 

 or near to the top of the trellis, should be trained a yard or 

 two down the back, or a trellis may be placed so as to form 

 an arbour ; or they may be placed to run right or left a few 

 feet on the uppermost wire* 



The stubs or shoots on which the clusters are placed, will 

 probably push again after being stopped, if the plants be 

 vigorous. If so, stop them again and again ; but after the 

 fruit are half grown, they will seldom spring. Observe to 

 divest the shoots, in training, of all laterals as they appear, 

 except the uppermost on each, in order to provide against 

 accidents, as hinted at before, in training the newly planted 

 Vines. When these shoots are stopped, as directed above, 

 they will push again. Allow the lateral that pushes, to run 

 a few joints, and then shorten it back to one, and so on as it 

 pushes, until it stops entirely. When the proper shoots 

 get ripened nearly to the top, the whole may be cut back to 

 the originally shortened part,, or to one joint above it, if 

 there be reason to fear that the uppermost bud of the proper 

 shoot will start. 



Divest the plants of all damped and decayed leaves as they 

 appear, as such will sometimes occur in continued hazy 

 weather, and be particularly cautious not to injure the leaf 

 that accompanies the bunch, for if that is lost, the fruit will 

 be of little value. 



' Every one of penetration and discernment," Nicol ob- 

 serves, " will admit the utility of thinning the berries on 

 bunches of grapes, in order that they may have room to 

 swell fully; and further that of supporting the shoulders of 

 such clusters of the large growing kinds as hang loosely, 

 and require to be suspended to the trellis or branches, in 

 order to prevent the bad effects of damp or mouldiness id 

 very moist seasons. Of these, the Hamburgh, Lombardy, 

 Royal Muscadine, Raisin, St. Peter's, Syrian, Tokay, and 



