90 THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



As the leading cane grows, tie it carefully to the rod, or 

 trelUs ; stop all the laterals as they appear at one eye or leaf ; 

 continue to check them, as they push again, in the same way. 

 The second shoot on last year's wood may be cut entirely out 

 in June, or, as soon as it is certain that no accident to the 

 leading cane will require the use of this as a substitute ; the 

 shoots on the spurs of the old wood must be stopped, as often 

 as they push, by cutting them back to one eye. 



Stop the leading cane when it has grown about fifteen feet, 

 and before it reaches the top of the house ; allow the upper 

 lateral to grow ; this will prevent the eyes on the upper part 

 of the cane from bursting. This lateral should be cut back 

 to one eye, after it has gro^vii three or four feet ; if it still 

 continue growing strong, check it again. 



Early in July, dust sulphur on the floor of the house, to 

 prevent mildew ; to be effectual, one pound should be used 

 for every twenty square feet of the house. If mildew should 

 make its appearance, and continue to increase, syringe the 

 vines at evening, and dust the foliage also with it.* 



method used in the houses which I have recently erected. On the front, or upright 

 part, there should be two of these ; the first about eig-hteen inches from the ground, 

 the second at the proper distance (ten or 14 inches,) from the roof 5 on the rafters, 

 the first one should be placed about twelve inches from the plate, and the last, or 

 upper one, at about fifteen inches from the ridge-pole ; the intervening ones may be 

 at distances of three or four feet, as deemed best. With this method of training, 

 small wires, rumiing parallel with the rafters, should be attached to the ridge-pole, or 

 upper rod, and, resting on the other rods, be brought down and secured to tiie sill, 

 one on each side of the stem of the vine, at about si.x inches from it, to support the 

 lateral, or fruit bunches. The rods should be of one quarter inch iron, secured at the 

 ends to the wood work by screws. In the interior, they must be fastened to the 

 rafters by iron pieces, which should be three eighths of an inch in thickness, and five 

 or six inches long ; these are secured by two screws (on a flattened end,) into the 

 rafters, with a socket on the other for the rod to rest in, which must be closed firmly, 

 by pincers, after insertion. 



Vines on the back wall may be trained on wire, or other trellis, as may be most 

 convenient. (See trellis for out-door training.) 



* Nathaniel Silsbee, Jr., Esq., informs me, that, in his grapery, which is a cold house, 

 he covers the floor twice, every summer, with the sulphur, and recommends its ap- 

 plication in the middle of the day, as, at that time, part of it will rise and settle on 

 the vine, but, in such small particles, as to do no injury. He has foiuid this efiectua! 

 in preventing mildew, if this fungus makes its appearance before the sulphur is 



