their fruit, pinch off their tip ends, for the 

 purpose of forcing the sap into the fruit. 



This may seem severe pruning, but, if you 

 desire fruit, instead of wood and leaves, you 

 will find your account in it. The health and 

 longevity of the vine does not seem to suffer 

 at all, by this treatment. The grape, cultivat- 

 ed under glass, is even more subjected to the 

 knife,, than it is in this mode of open culture. 

 [See Allen's Treatise on the Grape Vine.] 



Late autumn, or winter, is the best season 

 to do this work, so far as the knife is employed 

 in it. The vine, and all other trees that are 

 inclined to bleed, should receive their heavy 

 pruning at this season, and their very light 

 trimmings in mid-summer. 



The vine, and other trained trees, are fas- 

 tened to their trellises, or to the sides of walls 

 or buildings, by means of shreds of bass- 

 matting, twine, or leather loops put round 

 them and nailed. The walls or trellises should 

 face the south or south-west, in preference to 

 other points of compass. 



It is haidly within the province of this little 

 work, to enter into a more particular descrip- 

 tion of the training of trees upon walls and 

 trellises. Those who desire to investigate the 



