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sliould be placed near the entrance of the flues, where 

 the temperature is higher. 



Pruning and Training. — Very numerous^ have been 

 the directions given in reference to these particulars ; 

 but we cannot here go into such details, nor is it neces- 

 sary. The great object is the reproduction of bearing, 

 that is, annual wood, over thfe whole. surface of the 

 house. When this is accomplished, the next matter to 

 be determined i« the number of eyes or buds to be left 

 on each shoot, that is, wdiether we shall adopt the short 

 or the long -system of pruning. The former is most 

 allied to the practice of foreign vineyards, and has been 

 most successfully employed in this country. According 

 to this method, all the lateiJal shoots ar^ <3ut down to 

 single eyes, as described in Lond. Hortic. Trans. ^ iv., 

 104. For a particular description of the long system, 

 weinay refer to the same volume, p, 246-, or io Lou- 

 don's Encyclo^xdia of Gardening^ second, edition, p. 

 548. To these references, we shall only add a few gene- 

 ral remaa'ks. (1.) It ought to be the great aim -of 

 the British gardener to make his vities grow as luxuri- 

 antly as possible;, for' the, good quality of the grapes, 

 when properly ripened, is generally commensurate with 

 the streng-th of the §hoota-<ind. size of thp berries. The 

 borders should therefore be ^^iade rich ; but they ought 

 to be rather wide than deep, deep planting being adverse 

 to the ripening of the fruit. (2.) In order to secure a 

 proper degree of vigor, vines ijliould be limited in ex- 

 tent and pruned during winter, rather severely than 

 otherwise. To enable us tQ circumscribe the plants, it 

 would bfi .well to introduce as many separate plants into 

 the vinery as can be done without, confusion, ^or an 

 illustra-tion of ..this principle, we -may refer to the prac- 



