IN PUBLIC THOROUGHFABES. 153 



be enclosed by them, forming the fourth side. The 

 stem of the vine being enclosed in this covering, the 

 latter must be secured to the wall in such a manner as 

 to admit of its being opened when required, for the 

 purpose of divesting the stem of its decayed bark, 

 which operation ought to be performed at the autumn 

 of every third year. If a shoot should at any time 

 grow out of the naked stem, it must be rubbed off im- 

 mediately it appears. As soon as the stem is thus en- 

 closed, it should be nailed firmly to the wall just above 

 the top of the covering, but no fastening of any de- 

 scription should be put round that part of the stem that 

 is within the covering. The vine being thus protected, 

 will not require any further attention during the 

 winter. 



Throughout the next summer it must be managed in 

 precisely the same manner as in the preceding summer 

 previously to its removal, and at the fall of the leaf the 

 current year's shoot must be cut back to the three low- 

 ermost buds, for the purpose of having two leading shoots 

 permanently retained in the following year. 



After the vine has been thus cut down to the three 

 bottom buds, it will correspond to that mentioned in 

 paragraph, Nov. 1st, page 104, and its future manage- 

 ment, therefore, must be agreeable to the directions 

 that follow those given under that date ; the culture, 

 hereafter, being the same as that of a vine trained 

 against a garden wall. 



It must, however, be observed, that, as the spare sur- 

 face on which a vine can conveniently be trained, in 

 the front of any house or other building situated in a 

 public thoroughfare of a town, must necessarily be of a 

 limited height, the shoots had better be annually trained 

 in a horizontal position, as represented by figure 4, 

 page 94. Also, if a vine cannot conveniently be 

 planted otherwise than at the end of any side of a 

 building, it cannot, of course, have more than one hor- 



