122 THE FORCING GARDENER. [B. fr 



curing a proper fucceffion of flrong fhoots 

 to produce the laterals, without which 

 they bear very infignificant clutters . s 



I alfo, in the other houfe, produced a 

 fecond crop, for two feafons : but, finding 

 it to exhauft the plants very much, I dif- 

 continued it } the more efpecially, as, ha- 

 ving fo many compartments for Grapes, 

 this praftice was the lefs neceflary. The 

 method is this : 



Juft about the time when the fruit is 

 half ripe, and when the under-part of the 

 Ihoot is alfo ripe to the length of about 

 two or three feet, and the extremity of it 

 in a growing ftate, fhorten it, at about two 

 or three feet above the ripe part. It will 

 pulh again, and will generally bring two 

 clutters. Sometimes, alfo, the fecond and 

 third eyes will pufh, and bring a clutter or 

 two. In winter pruning, fhorten down 

 the firft, or fpring-made part of the flioot, 

 to two or three feet. 



This method may be repeated, with 

 pretty good fuccefs, once in two or three 

 years } but, if done every year, it will (in 

 the courfe of three or four years) occafion 

 the cutting of the plants down to the 



ground, 



