TRAINING THOMEKY. 



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high and extended walls or close fences are 

 its attendants ; but it is very advantageous 

 for making the most of the shelter afforded in 

 yards, gardens, and by the sides of buildings, 

 and especially for arbors, on which the ordi- 

 nary efforts always fail. 



Fig. 73 is part of an arm of a large vine 



Fig. 73. 



trained with the aim of covering a high trellis 

 like Fig. 74. It has been planted twelve 

 years, and has already been cut back twice 

 in impracticable efforts to cover the whole ele- 

 vation of about nine feet with bearing wood. 

 Four feet of elevation is about the limit to 

 which this can be done by ordinary means from 

 one vine. Fig. 74 represents the trellis covered, 

 which is quite practicable by the Thomery 

 system, and easily maintained. 



