with the smallest Loss of Time. 



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each produce an excellent shoot the same season. Instead 

 of cutting this shoot back the following spring, as generally 

 done, it is to be left 1 5 ft. or 20 ft. long, and trained as exhi- 

 bited in the accompanying sketch {^fig. 1 18.), which is a section 



of a house now under my charge, with the present and future 

 bearing wood as it now exists, a a represents the shoot of 

 the first season trained into its present form in the month of 

 February last ; having been first twisted at &, and again when 

 introduced into the pots d d. The twist at b produces the emis- 

 sion of the shoot c, from the eye immediately under the twist 

 at b. The pots {d d) ought to be filled with rich compost, as 

 it is from this source that tlie shoot a a will receive its prin- 

 cipal support, by an abundant supply of liquid manure while 

 the vines are in a growinfj state. The vine c is intended as the 

 principal or permanent shoot ; a a being completely separated 

 from the plant when the fruit is cut. iiy these means we do 

 not lose a single crop. The house is replenished with young 

 healthy vines, and the border is in a good condition to pro- 

 duce abundant crops. As a proof of this, I may mention that 

 the vine a a is a Black Hamburgh, propagated from an eye, 

 in February, 1828 ; planted in May of the same year, in a 

 newly built house; and now bearing thirty-five excellent 

 bunches of grapes. 



In conclusion, I beg leave to state that the vines were 



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