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main, must be varied according to the sort 

 of Grape; those sorts which produce small 

 berries, must be left the rankest. Those 

 bunches which have shoulders (such as the 

 Black Hamburgh and others) must have 

 them supported to the Vine or trellis, pre- 

 vious to thinning, by small strands of matt- 

 ing. This gives a great advantage to the 

 swelling of the berries, and secures them 

 from getting mouldy. All laterals or claspers 

 which are produced, must be taken away, 

 leaving about one inch of each clasper, but 

 taking the laterals entirely away. 



The uppermost shoot must be trained up 

 to the top of the house and then in an hori- 

 zontal direction for a few feet; it must then 

 be stopped agreeably to the instructions 

 given for the first year. 



Those Vines which were cut down to two 

 buds at the winter pruning must be regulated 

 in the following manner. If both the buds 

 pushed a strong shoot each, let the upper- 

 most be taken clean away, and the other 

 be trained up the house, and afterwards 

 treated as directed for young Vines the first 

 year after being planted. At the following 

 winter pruning the Vine must be shortened 

 back to four feet, and in its future treatment 

 be regulated agreeably to directions given 

 for the other Vines which were allowed to 

 remain four feet long at the first winter pru- 

 ning. 



