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prevent them from properly taking root, and so injure the 

 strength of the vine. 



If this method of planting for the trellised vine is compared 

 with that used in the majority of gardens, it will be seen that 

 it is very different. In fact, the vines are almost always planted 

 directly at the foot of the wall, and the only pa/t buried is that 

 which was originally below the soil ; so that the vine, the roots 

 of which ramify with great difficulty, cannot, when thus, 

 planted, develop new radical organs upon the stems below the 

 soil. It puts forth roots with great difficulty, it is long in 

 recovering from its transplantation, ^nd its vegetation is never 

 vigorous. 



On the contrary, by adopting the mode of cultivation used at 

 Thomery, which we have just described, the vine is placed 

 under much better circumstances. The first year there is 

 buried, besides the stem first covered with roots, 10 inches of 

 the shoot, which during the two or three years preceding the 

 relaying, covers itself with vigorous roots. Two or three years 

 after this, 14 inches of the shoot are again laid, which in a little 

 while is completely covered with roots. Each stalk intended 

 for the wall is then provided with an underground stem 44 

 inches in length, bearing through all its length numerous and 

 vigorous roots, which give to the vine more strength and hardi- 

 ness than is possible when the method of which we spoke first 

 is used. When uncovered cJievclees^ or those in baskets are 

 used, the cultivator may be tempted to lay at once a length of 

 shoot sufficient to bring the upper end directly to the foot of the 

 wall, a length, for instance of 24 inches. This is a very bad 

 plan, for the stems do not properly take root only upon the 12 

 to 14 inches nearest to the upper ends, because the woody 

 and cortical fibres which run down from the buds to produce 

 roots are not sufficiently numerous to put forth roots enough, 

 and they pierce the bark at the same time that they meet the 

 soil. It is desirable to lay only 14 inclies at the most, if it is 

 intended that the underground stalk shall be fully provided with 

 roots throughout its whole extent. 



Method of Pruning adopted for the Vertically Trel- 



