IN PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES. 137 



Throughout the next summer, it must be managed 

 in precisely the same manner as in the preceding 

 summer previously to its removal, and at the fall of 

 the leaf the current year's shoot must be cut back to 

 the three lowermost buds, for the purpose of having 

 Uoo leading shoots permanently retained in the follow- 

 ing year. 



After the vine has thus been cut down to the three 

 bottom buds, it will correspond to that mentioned in 

 paragraph, Nov. 1st, page 93, and its future manage- 

 ment, therefore, must be agreeable to the directions 

 that follow those given under that date ; the culture, 

 hereafter, being the same as that of a vine trained 

 against a garden-wall. 



It must, however, be observed, that, as the spare 

 surface on which a vine can conveniently be trained, 

 in the front of any house or other building situated 

 in a public thoroughfare of a town, must necessarily 

 be of a limited height, the shoots had better be annu- 

 ally trained in a horizontal position, as represented by 

 Fig. 4, page 85. Also, if a vine cannot conveniently 

 be planted otherwise than at the end of any side of a 

 building, it cannot, of course, have more than one 

 horizontal branch from which the bearing shoots are 

 to proceed. 



Only one other contingency remains to be provided 

 for, and that is, where local circimistances render 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 man- 

 aged 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 autumn or winter immediately following the sum- 

 mer of its first growth and formation. For instance, 

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

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