APR.] CRAPES. 375 



A free and regular circulation of air should now 

 be encouraged, and less or more must be admitted 

 every day ; observing the rules given above for air- 

 ing the cherry-house, with respect to giving and 

 taking it away by degrees. 



With regard to pruning and training, the direc- 

 tions given last month are to be followed ; and if 

 there be an under trellis, on which to train the sum- 

 mer shoots, (see the article Trellising, Section I.) 

 they should now be let down to it, that the fruit 

 may enjoy the full air and light, as it. advances to- 

 wards maturity, Such of these shoots as issue from 

 the bottom, and are to be shortened in the winter- 

 pruning to a few eyes, merely for the production 

 of wood to fill the trellis, may be stopped when they 

 have grown to the length pf four or five feet. 

 Others that are intended to be cut down to about 

 two yards, and which issue at different heights, may 

 be stopped when they have run three yards or ten 

 feet, less or more, according to their strength. And 

 those intended to be cut at, or near to, the top of 

 the house, should be trained a yard or two down the 

 back-wall ; (a trellis being placed against it pur- 

 posely ;) or they may be run right or left a few feet 

 on the uppermost wire. 



I would here observe, that in order to be a good 

 trainer of vines, and be able to provide for a crop 

 the following season, a man must have some fore- 

 thought, and be capable of making Jiis selections, 

 as the plants shoot, even at this distance of time. 

 He must predetermine how he shall prune, and 

 where he shall cut, at the end of the season j and 



