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each rafter to bear fruit, and one growing for the 

 following year's bearing, are all that need or should 

 be grown ; indeed at the ordinary distance of rafters, 

 it is advanced to the contrary, the extent of, and the 

 injury sustained from these is innumerable, as much 

 work as a vine ought to do for many years. Any 

 other fastening injures the rafter itself, whereas the 

 wire being a fixture, the vine branch needs only 

 to be tied to the wire with good twisted bass mat- 

 ting, which will last the season ; at the end of 

 which the old branch is cut away, and the new one 

 may be fastened in its place. {Gard. and Florist. 

 hi. 431.) 



Another mode is by having wires extending lon- 

 gitudinally the whole length of the house, through 

 eyes fastened about twelve inches apart into the raf- 

 ters. 



A third plan, is to have the vines planted in a bor- 

 der at the back of the house inside, and to train them 

 down the rafters. This plan was suggested by Mr. 

 W. Smith, of the Chiswick Gardens, and is thus 

 recommended by him. 



The common practice in vineries, he observes, of 

 training the trees from the front to the back, upon 

 laths or wires fixed to the rafters under the whole of 

 the glass roof, forms so impervious a shade to the 

 floor and back wall of the house, as to render both 

 these places almost useless for any other purpose 



