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Those, and those only, who are pent up within the precincts of 

 a town, and perpetually harassed with the cares of business, the 

 calls of which seldom permit them to quit the busy haunts of 

 their fellow-men to catch a glimpse of the beauties of nature, 

 such, only, know how cheering to the feelings is the contempla- 

 tion of the growth and formation of even the most trifling produc- 

 tion of the vegetable kingdom. To all such, therefore, the culture 

 of the vine presents a means of enjoyment of the most gratifying 

 description. No other sort of fruit-tree can be planted with the 

 slightest prospect of success in the paved and public streets of a 

 town; but the vine surmounts all obstacles, and thrives in almost 

 every situation, where the hand of man is held out to protect it 

 from injury, and to guide it in its growth by a judicious course of 

 culture. 



In order, therefore, to facilitate the more general introduction of 

 vines into towns, and to enable such of the inhabitants thereof as 

 possess the requisite local advantage of site and aspect, to plant 

 and cultivate them against their premises, the following additional 

 directions are given. It may, however, be remarked, that after a 

 vine has become well established in its growth, the pruning, train- 

 ing, and general management of the branches and fruit are the 

 same, whatever may be the situation it may be made to occupy ; 

 but in the planting of vines in the public thoroughfares of towns, 

 and in the culture of them during the first two or three subsequent 

 years, many local contingencies that are incidental to such ex- 

 posed situations, require to be provided for, by the variation of 

 some points of culture from, and the addition of others to the 

 usual routine of management ; and to point out the former and 

 supply the latter, is the object of the present chapter,] 



As a preliminary remark it may be mentioned, that 

 that part of the vine which intervenes betwixt the 

 roots and the branches, may be considered as the stem, 

 as a, &, fig. 8 ; and that part where the stem ceases 

 and the branches commence, maybe termed the fruit- 

 ing point, as b, Jig. 8. It may also be remarked, that 

 it is not of important consequence, to what distance 

 from the ground the stem of a vine extends, and at 

 which the fruiting point commences ; whether it be 

 one foot, ten feet, or twenty-five feet. It is better, 



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