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vine covers a space of about 40 feet in length and 

 20 in breadth. And your two trelises, being, to- 

 gether, 128 feet long, and 4 deep, would form a 

 space of more than half the dimensions of the 

 vine of Hampton Court. However, suppose you 

 have only a fifth part of what you might have, 

 a hundred bunches of grapes are worth a great deal 

 more than the annual trouble, which is, indeed, 

 very little. Fig. 4 shows a vine in summer. You 

 see the four shoots hearing ', and four other shoots 

 coming on for the next year, from the butts left 

 at the winter pruning, as at b. These four lat- 

 ter you are to tie to the bars as they advance on 

 during the summer, When winter comes again, 

 you are to cut off the four shoots that sent out 

 the bearers during the summer , and leave the 

 four that grew out of the butts. Cut the four 

 its shoote that have borne, so as to leave but one 

 bud at the butt. And they will then be sending 

 out wood, while the other four will be sending 

 out fruit. And thus you go on year after year 

 or your life ; for, as to the vine, it will, if well 

 treated, outlive you and your children to the 

 third and even thirtieth generation. I think 

 they say, that the vine at Hampton Court, was 

 planted in the reign of King William. During the 

 summer there are two things to be observed, as 

 to pruning. Each ot the last year's shoots has 32 

 buds, and, of course, it sends out 32 shoots with 

 the grapes on them, for the grapes come out of 

 the 2 first fair buds of these shoots. So that here 

 would be an enormous quantity of wood, if it 

 were all left till the end of summer. But, this 

 must not be. When the grapes get as big as 

 iieas, cut off the green shoots that bear them, at 



