154 ON THE PLANTING OF VINES 



izontal branch from which the bearing shoots are to 

 proceed. 



Only one other contingency now remains to be pro- 

 vided for, and that is, where local circumstances ren- 

 der it necessary, that a vine should be trained on a 

 different side of a building, to that on which it is 

 planted. In such a case, there is a sharp corner to be 

 turned in training, and although this is not a difficult 

 matter to accomplish, yet, to ensure success, it must be 

 managed with care, and in a proper manner. 



The flexibility of the young shoots of vines is well 

 known, but there is only one period in the growth of a 

 shoot, during which it can be made to bend round the 

 rectangular corner of a building, and that is in the au- 

 tumn or winter immediately following the summer of 

 its first growth and formation. For instance, a green 

 shoot that is emitted from a vine in the spring of the 

 present year 1843, will be fully ripe at the fall of the 

 leaf in November ; the time, therefore, that intervenes 

 betwixt that event and the middle of March in the 

 next year 1844, is the only period in the existence of 

 that shoot, in which it will be sufficiently flexible for 

 the purpose above-mentioned. Whenever it becomes 

 necessary, therefore, to train the fruiting branches of 

 a vine on a different side of a building to that on which 

 it is planted, the leading or connecting limb must be 

 trained round the corner, (there to remain perma- 

 nently,) some time during the period of its growth be- 

 fore-mentioned. And in all such cases this operation 

 had better be performed in the autumn succeeding the 

 first summer's growth of a vine after it has been trans- 

 planted, because the shoot to be bent will then be com- 

 paratively small and weakly, and consequently much 

 more flexible than the shoot of any subsequent year, 

 after the vine has recovered from the check which its 

 growth has experienced by transplantation. To perform 

 this operation, then, observe the following directions. 



