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an overflowing crop. Many shoots will show three 

 bunches of fruit, and here and there, on some, will be 

 found even four. 



27th. The shoots will now push so rapidly, as to 

 require almost daily inspection. Nail the future 

 bearers firmly, and if any of them be disposed to 

 grow long-jointed, bend them a little out of their 

 former direction, every time they are nailed; this will 

 soon check their growth, and ensure the develop- 

 ment of full sized fruit-buds. Some of the strongest 

 shoots will, perhaps, grow in an adverse direction to 

 the surface of the wall ; if so, these must be man- 

 aged at the outset, with more than ordinary care. 

 For the purpose of inducing them to grow close to 

 the wall, provide a sufficient number of shreds from 

 twelve to eighteen inches in length, or longer, if re- 

 quired ; and as soon as any shoot which has thus 

 pushed, has attained the length of fifteen, or not more 

 than eighteen inches, put a shred, sufficiently long, 

 carefully round that part of it that is nine or ten 

 inches from the old wood, out of which it has grown, 

 and, drawing it out of its natural position about an 

 inch towards tlie wall, nail it firmly. In the course 

 of two or three days the shoot will have taken a 

 direction towards the wall, it may then have another 

 shred put round it much shorter than the first, and 

 somewhat nearer the extremity of the shoot. Ilepeat 

 this operation two or three days afterwards, if re- 

 quired, and the shoot will then grow close to the sur- 

 face of the wall. 



The tendrils that push from the footstalks of the 

 bunches of fruit must now be pinched oft'. 



The lateral or side shoots also, which are now 

 pushing vigorously, must be pinched oft' about an inch 

 beyond the first joint, as soon as they are about four 

 inches in length, but such as are near any bunches of 

 fruit should not be thus topped, till they are about six 

 inches in length, as their foliage will then be of greater 

 use in protecting the fruit. It must be observed, that 

 the lateral shoots are not on any account to be pulled 



