280 TREATMENT OF THE 



duced fruit, as c, d, must be cut clean away 

 to the stem which they proceed from. 



The following summer the Vines will bear 

 fruit for the length of ten feet, and two 

 bunches of fruit may be allowed upon each 

 bud, all others must be pinched off. Each 

 uppermost new shoot upon the shoots, a, b, of 

 the last year's wood, must not be permitted to 

 retain any fruit whatever, but the uppermost 

 new shoot upon the shoot a, must be trained 

 to the top of the house and be stopped as 

 before directed. Also the uppermost new 

 shoot upon the shoot b, must be allowed to 

 grow to nine feet in length, and then be 

 stopped by cutting away two feet off the 

 end, at which length it must afterwards be 

 kept during summer. It will generally 

 happen that there will be several buds break 

 from the oldest wood of the Vine, and very 

 near to the bottom, in which case a shoot 

 must be retained and trained up at the oppo- 

 site side the main stem of the Vine to the 

 shoot b, all other shoots which arise near to 

 the origin of this must be rubbed off when 

 about one or two inches long. If a shoot 

 does not proceed from the old wood, the 

 lowest new shoot upon the Vine must be 

 trained in for the same purpose. This shoot 

 must be allowed to grow about seven feet 

 long; and then be stopped by cutting off the 

 top to five feet, as before directed to the low- 

 est shoot last year. 



