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THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



it might answer on the back trellis of a house, but, for the 

 roof, it would not succeed so well, as the shoots would occupy 

 too much space. 



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It is liable to the same objections that all the long cane sys- 

 tems of training are.* 



* Extracts from a Journal of a Horticultural Tour. By a Deputation of the Caledo- 

 nian Horticultural Society, lol7- Edinburgh, 1823 : — 



Ghent, seat of the Baron de Vrocylande. 



" There are two small vineries, which did not afford lis much satisfaction. The 

 ^•ines are planted in front, on the outside of the house. Every 3'ear, a new set of 

 wood is taken into the vinery ; the wood produced this 3'ear, is trained upright, on 

 an exterior trellis, and is, next season, laid dovra to a sloping trellis, and made to 

 jield its fruit within the house. 



" The wood which has once been forced, is cut entirely out ; and from the same 

 roots, new upright shoots are, annually, required. The shoots which had ben forced, 

 still remained, and a bare inspection was sufficient to satisfy any one, that they 

 could have afforded but very few grapes. The exterior, upright shoots, of this 

 season, were, at the same time, in a very backward state, and there was (sixteenth 

 August,) little prospect of their acquiring maturity this year." 



The natural soil of the garden is represented as light and sandy ; but no mention 

 is made of the border for the vines. 



At the seat of Madame Vilain Quatorze, also, at Ghent, the same method of 

 forcing the grape is pursued, and the result is, sickly and weak vines. 



At Brussels also, they found similar training and pruning, and with no better 

 success. 



This plan of training, etc., is upon the renewal sj'stcm, and, where this is adopted 

 and continued for many years, the effect must be to weaken the vine. 



