IN PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES. 



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prospect of success in the paved and public streets of a town; 

 but the vine surmounts all obstacles, and thrives in almost every 

 situation, where the hand of man is held out to protect it from 

 injury, and to guide it in its growth by a judicious course of cul- 

 ture. 



In order, therefore, to facilitate the more general introduction 

 of vines into towns, and to enable such of the inhabitants thereof 

 as possess the requisite local advantages of site and aspect, to 

 plant and cultivate them against their premises, the following ad- 

 ditional directions are given. It may, however, be remarked, 

 that after a vine has become well established in its growth, the 

 pruning, training, and general management of the branches and 

 fruit are the same, whatever may be the situation it may be made 

 to occupy ; but in the planting of vines in the public thorough- 

 fares of towns, and in the culture of them during the first two or 

 three subsequent years, many local contingencies that are inciden- 

 tal to such exposed situations require to be provided for, by the 

 variation of some points of culture from, and the addition of others 

 to the usual routine of management ; and to point out the former 

 and supply the latter, is the object of the ensuing chapter.] 



CHAPTER XV. 



ON THE PLANTING AND MANAGEMENT OF VINES IN THE 

 PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES OF TOWNS. 



As a preliminary remark, it may be mentioned, that 

 that part of a vine whicli intervenes betwixt the roots 

 and the branches, may be considered as the stem^ as 

 a, 6, tig. 8 ; and that part where the stem ceases and 



Fig. 8. 



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