APPENDIX n. 



CULTIVATION OF TRELLISED VINES, ARRANGED 

 WITH VERTICAL STEMS (CORDONS) BEARING OP- 

 POSITE SHOOTS. 



In this new arrangement (Fig. 75) the vines are planted 

 at the foot of the wall every 14 inches. The wall, whatever be 

 its height, is horizontally divided into two equal parts. The 

 first vine sto])s at half the height of the wall. The second is 

 allowed to reach its summit, and thus continue in this manner 

 alternately to the extremity of the wall. The reader will observe 

 that the shorter vines bear shoots from about 12 inches above 

 the soil to their tops, and tlie taller begin to bear shoots only on 

 leaving the lower half of the wall. These pairs of slioots are 10 

 inches distant from each other. This arrangement oifers all the 

 advantages presented by the form shown in Fig. 74 ; that is to 

 say, that in consequence of the length of the main stem fur- 

 nished with shoots, these last are maintained in equal growth. 

 Moreover, the new form grows more shoots for the same sur- 

 face than is shown in Fig. 74, and more even than the horizontal 

 cordons. If, however, the wall is only 39 inches high, all the 

 vines may be made to rise regularly to its summit. P)Ut in that 

 case they should be placed at intervals of 28 inches and should 

 be furnished with branches from 12 inches above the soil to the 

 top of the wall. • 



Let us now turn to the labor necessary to the establishment 

 of such a trellis as the one described above. 



Walls peoper foe the Teellis. — The vine arranged in ver- 

 tical cordons accommodate themselves to walls of all heights. 

 At Thomery the gardens are subdivided by bearing walls 

 parallel to each other and separated by a space of from 40 to 

 46| feet. They may, however, be placed nearer to each other, 

 but in that case the earth between will be too much shaded, 

 and cannot be turned to account These bearing walls are only 

 85 inches high, and were built many years after those of iuclo- 

 sm-e; that is to say, when the young vines which it is intended 

 they shall support, have been carried thence by many successive 



