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vine, to continue it succcssfally in operation after having established it in full bearing. 

 Plate No. 58 represents the plan brought to within one year of full establishment ; and 

 Plate No. 41, of Descriptive Catalogue, represents a section of a vine in full bearing, at 

 its eiglith year. 



For the base of this plan we come back to one most simple, that is equally adapted 

 for garden or vineyard, and generally known as the Medoc vineyard plan, for which 

 Plate 57 was designed as an illustration. This will only cover a wall four feet high 

 at most, and can never get beyond its single system of upright bearing canes, each bear- 

 ing its three bunches. It is often desirable to cover high walls and buildings, and to 

 have the vines perpetually productive. It was an effort of much practical knowledge 

 that produced tlie plan for doing it represented in Plates 55 and 58 ; but the utmost 

 limit to which this could singly be made to reach may be stated at ten feet, and not 

 more than half of that without difficulty in maintenance. We often wish to cover an 

 elevation more than twice as great or even three times. The most obvious means 

 apparently would be by the plan represented in Plate 56, or that in Plate No. 59 ; 

 both of which would soon result in such a failure as is represented in Plate No. 45 of 

 Descriptive Catalogue, To do it speedily, and with some degree of permanence, 

 the plan represented in Plate No. 60 might be adopted, which is that of No. 43, D. C, 

 doubled ; one being placed above the other. By this means a hight of twelve feet 

 is pretty easily reached, and for a time uniformly covered with fruit; but the upward 

 tendency of the action would soon begin to leave the lower bearing portion of each set 

 of stocks without fruit or living branches. One of the advantages of the plan shown 

 in Plate No. 60 is, that when the lower bearing portions fail, they can very easily and 

 speedily be restored by cutting down about two thirds of the bearing portion of each 

 stock. New bearing canes will immediately spring out from the portion below", and the 

 next season the restoration of the portion above may be begun, and completed the 

 second or third season from the cutting. The fruit on the few canes represents all 

 of them, as all are supposed to be carrying about the same amount. 



The student will be surprised, in examining most of the good systems, to find 

 how nearly the same amount of fruit is borne by them all, when in full bearing. The 

 merit of one above another consists in facility of execution or permanence o^ full pro- 

 duction, and in the quality of the fruit. The object of renewal is to compensate for 

 over- cropping, and although by this means the largest crops may be produced, the best 

 fruit can not. 



TRAINING ON BUILDINGS. 



Plate No. 45, Descriptive Catalogue, represents the most common method, but 

 the distribution soon becomes very uneven and unsightly, and the vines bear but little, 

 and that at the highest points. Plate 46, D. C.', shows how the same house may be 

 covered with foliage and fruit in their season perpetually. When a building so high 

 is to be covered, a wide border and two rows of vines will be required. The first row 

 to be planted as if for the ordinary Thomery method, and the second in the same man- 

 ner, eight or ten feet from it. If the house is thirty feet high, the width of the border 

 should not be less than twenty. The latter row is to be trained to stakes at least two 

 seasons, and when led to the house the horizontal portions are to be kept from taking 

 root in the part given to the first row, by laying them on strips of boards, bricks, or 

 stones.- Afterward they may be covered. 



It will not be difficult to take each vine where it is marked by a letter or figure, 

 and trace it to its distribution for bearing. 



If we take the letter a at the left of the central house, (omitting a, b, c, b, of 

 the house at the left,) we shall find it dividing under the window of the second story, 

 and a branch rising on each side of the window midway, where each takes a horizontal 

 direction along a slat; the bearing canes only springing from the horizontal portions. 

 If we take the next letter, b, we see it divides for the lower course. That marked by 

 c rises for the upper course ; the little upright bearing canes of which are represented. 

 Fig, 5 of the first row, designates the vine that gives the next to the upper courses. 



