CHAPTER VII. 



MODES OF TRAINING. 



" ATTIRE is our guide. With an intelligent obser- 

 vation of the habits of plants, we can scarcely 

 go astray in their culture; and yet how greatly do we 

 modify the circumstances, retaining the conditions which 

 are of essential importance, and rejecting incidents which 

 have no intrinsic connection with the plant! We find the 

 grape running wild over our stone walls, oftentimes bear- 

 ing considerable fruit in this trailing position. More com- 

 monly we find it climbing to the tops of forest-trees, its 

 naked trunk being oftentimes twenty, forty, or even sixty 

 feet in length. Reaching the top, its branches spread out 

 horizontally ; and on its pendent laterals we shall find a 

 profusion of fruit. Seldom do we find much fruit while 



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