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flow more equally into the fruiting-shoots, and those 

 intended for future bearers. On walls that are much 

 less than five feet high, a portion of the shoots must 

 be trained horizontally. Let fig. 4, represent a wall 



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four feet high, and let the face of it be divided into 

 equal parallel portions of twelve inches in height, by 

 the horizontal lines 1, 2, 3, 4; then on each side of 

 the stem, from the arms A, A, may be trained two 

 fruiting-shoots at 2, and 4, and the same number of 

 current year's shoots at the dotted lines above 1, and 

 3. And in like manner, half that number of shoots 

 may be easily trained on a wall two feet high. The 

 pruning, in these cases, will be precisely the same as 

 if the shoots were trained vertically as in fig. 3. In 

 a similar manner, also, a series of vines may be 

 trained on a high wall, allowing to each a certain 

 parallel space in a horizontal direction, and running 

 the stems to such heights, as the arms of each vine 

 are to be trained. And when the height of a wall 

 exceeds eight or nine feet, this method may be 

 adopted with great advantage; for, by planting the 

 vines sufficiently close to each other, the surface of 

 the wall may, in a very few years, be completely 

 covered with fruit and bearing-wood. 



But although the mode of training represented by 

 figures 3, and 4, may be considered the most eligible 

 in all cases where the surface of a wall receives the 

 solar rays in an equal degree, yet, as it will frequently 

 happen that some parts of the surface of a wall are, 

 from local causes, either wholly or partially in the 

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