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practicable witbin tbe proposed limit of my catalogue, but I shall give such brief direo' 

 tions, aided by engravings, as will make the manner of proceeding clear for the first 

 two vears from planting, and also show the completion of the system of training. 



After one strong shoot has been obtained, (see plate 1, A,) the next season com- 

 mences by starting two, and the height at which these should be taken depends upon 

 the kind of arbor or trellis to which the vine is to be trained, (see a, b, c, d, 

 Qg. A.) The system represented on the plate, and called " Thomery," (see plate 2,) 

 has its name from a village near Paris, where it has been in operation more than one 

 hundred and lifty years, with results that have given it a world-wide celebrity. A 

 distinguished French writer, in a recent work on the subject, remarks that the "un- 

 equalled prosperity of this vineyard depends upon neither soil nor exposure, for both are 

 rather unfavorable, but upon the excellence of the system, and the care with which it 

 is managed." The statement of its productiveness appears incredible, but the most 

 important consideration is the surpassing quality of the fruit, for which three times the 

 price of ordinary well-grown grapes of the same variety is uniformly obtained. The 

 system was originally devised for a trellis in front of a wall which was built for af- 

 fording shelter and a warm exposure. The vines are not trained on the wall, but on 

 trellises placed from nine inches to two feet in advance, to afford a healthful circulation 

 of air between. 



Although it is Nell adapted for the open ground, and for a trellis running in any di- 

 rection, its best itssults, except in very warm latitudes, will be obtained under the shel- 

 ter of a high garden fence or wall, or on the south side of a house, for our native vines 

 can scarcely have too warm an exposure. To grow them on the southerly side of a 

 house, the trellis should be from eighteen inches to two feet from the building, and 

 may be at any height desired. A single system requires from eight to ten feet of 

 height, measuring from height at which first arms and fruit are taken, and any width 

 convenient greater than eight feet. A double system may as readih^ be applied by 

 which an elevation of from sixteen to twenty feet nniy be covered, measuring, 

 as above, from elevation at which lower or first arms are taken. This may be at 

 any elevation desired. According to such an arrangement, I have, during the past 

 twelve years, on the south side of my dwelling, trained vines that have borne profuse- 

 ly, and ripened their fruit nearly or quite two weeks earlier than those in the garden, 

 not more than one hundred feet distant. The house is on the line of the street, and 

 the border occupies tbe entire walk, twelve feet in width. Before planting, the ground 

 was trenched three feet deep, and abundantly enriched with stable manure and wood- 

 ashes thoroughly mingled with the soil or rather gravel. Flagging was laid, and it 

 has received no enrichment since, nor has any apparently been needed. The lower 

 fruit-bearing courses are about twelve feet above the walk to avoid depredation. 

 Aside from the great quantity of superior fruit yielded, we have been indebted to our 

 vines for a most beautiful and delightfully cooling shade, for which, I think, no vine 

 can excel the grape. I have described particularly because the best situation for the 

 vine is often overlooked. 



It may be noted that vines in particularly sheltered and warm exposures, although 

 ripening their fruit sooner, will hold it in perfection later than those not so situated, 

 and that it will not be damaged by any freezing that occurs before December. 



The first season only one shoot should be suffered to grow, and that should be 

 trained to an upright stake set into the ground at the time of planting. The tying 

 should be so frequently done as to keep the shoot always upright. If sutfered to bend 

 over, the strength will go to the formation of secondary shoots that spring out in the 

 axils of the leaves, (at the junction of the footstalk of the leaf with the main shoot,) 

 and are called laterals. (See plate No. 1, Fig. A at s s'.) These laterals should be all 

 taken off at one leaf (see s) as soon as they have made a length of three leaves, as the 

 strength that goes into them is taken from the leaves of the main shoot while they 

 give back but little to the formation of root or to the general strength of the plant. 



At the time for pruning, which we will suppose the month of February for the pres- 



