VI. LIST OF FHUITS. 



strong, that you may safely cut the shoots back to 

 within six inches of the main trunk, leaving the new 

 shoots to come out of it where they will j taking care to 

 let but one grow for the summer. If shoots start out of 

 the main trunk irregularly, rub them off as soon as they 

 appear, and never suffer your vine to have any more than 

 its regular number of shoots. Thus far with regard to 

 the training and pruning of vines in espalier. I have 

 now to speak of training against a wall} training under 

 glass in a green-house ; and training against a house. If 

 ; against a wall, you proceed to raise the young vine in 

 precisely the same manner as before directed 5 but, in 

 place of carrying the trunk upright, in order to have 

 bearing shoots come out of the side of it, as in plate 8j 

 \ you cut it down to within two eyes of the bottom. Sup-< 

 * pose you have got the vine, Jig. V. plate 8. Instead of 

 bringing out from it four shoots of a side, bring out only 

 the two bottom ones, cutting the top of the trunk off 

 pretty close down to the highest of the two first shoots 

 i from the bottom. These two shoots may be suffered to 

 C bear the first year after they come out; but these two 

 shoots are then to be suffered to remain to form limbs 

 for the bearing shoots to go out of: and these bearing 

 ; shoots are to go up the wall perpendicularly, instead of 

 running horizontally, as they do on the trellis-work. All 

 the rules for cutting out the shoots alternately are the 

 same in this case as in the other. The vine might be 

 trained against the wall horizontally as against the trellis-- 

 work ; but it would not be so convenient - } for, the two 

 horizontal limbs left at the bottom may be carried to any 

 length against a wall j so that, one vine would, in time, 

 be sufficient for a wall of considerable extent. I have 





