Vines in City Yards. 



Vines on trellises in city yards and small village 

 gardens, may be most conveniently and profitably ma- 

 naged upon the single stem renewal system of training 

 herein recommended. The borders for such vines in 

 the city should, if possible, be formed of brick-work, 

 detached from the adjacent cold, compact and useless 

 soil of the yard, and underdrained by tiles conducted 

 into a cess-pool or culvert, in order to render them 

 warmer and dryer, spring and fall ; and a mulching of 

 litter in summer will greatly assist in retaining mois- 

 ture. Twice the number of vines will of course be 

 grown as under the ordinary system, and only half of 

 them fruited each year. Vines so managed will make 

 an astonishing growth in a single season, often running 

 to the height of the tallest trellis, if well supplied with 

 appropriate fertilizers ; while the foliage of the fruiting 

 and the growing canes will afi'ord quite as much shade' 

 as vines grown with long branches in the ordinary way, 

 and they can be much more easily and systematically 

 trained, and produce more and better fruit. Vines on 

 city trellises, allowed to ramble at will for the sake of 

 shade, and sparingly fed with proper nutriment, seldom 



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