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ON THE PLANTING OF VINES 



Pig. 8. 



without doubt, to have a short stem rather than a long 

 one, because the latter will annually require for its 

 support a greater quantity of the elaborated juice of 

 the plant than the former, but where local circumstan- 

 ces prevent a vine from being trained on a short stem, 

 it must, of necessity, be trained on a long one. 



Vines that are planted against any description of 

 walls that bound public thoroughfares, ought, always, 

 to have their bearing branches trained at such a height 

 from the ground, as shall put it out of the power of 

 mischievous .persons to injure the foliage, or to gather 

 the fruit. For these reasons, a vine that is to be 

 planted in such a situation must, previously to its re- 

 moval thither, have the full height of its stem already 

 formed. It is necessary, also, that the latter, as soon 

 as the vine is planted, should be protected from injury, 

 by being, up to a sufficient height, enclosed within a 

 permanent covering. A vine, therefore, that is suit- 

 able for this purpose, must have a" stem that measures 

 not less than two inches in circumference when re- 

 moved, which, if growing in good ground, will be the 

 size of one about three years old. In the ordinary 

 course of transplanting, a vine of such a size would be 

 too large, on account of the severe check in its growth 



