GRAPES. 227 



must remain, and be trained upright for fruit the follow- 

 ing year, when it may be left five or six feet, and those 

 which produced fruit cut down to two eyes the same as be- 

 fore ; thus having, every alternate year, wood and fruit 

 from the same part of the horizontal limb. 



Should the wall be too high to be reached by a single 

 series in this manner, a second one must be arranged for 

 the purpose. 



I need not add, that the thinning of the bunches of 

 grapes with the scissors will be very essential to their 

 perfection, both in size and flavour, especially of the 

 larger sorts ; as, in a fine season, they then nearly equal 

 those grown under glass. 



I have been entirely indebted to the late Mr. Speechly 

 for this method of managing the vine, which I believe 

 was never practised previously by any other person in 

 this country. I have adopted it for several years, and 

 I confess I prefer it to that of any other. In Speechly's 

 Treatise on the Vine, p. 106, there is a very neat plate, 

 representing the plant in six successive stages of its 

 growth, each pruned at the end of the season. 



I visited Mr. Speechly at Welbeck some years before 

 his death, and had an ample opportunity of witnessing 

 the excellence of his management, both in his vines and 

 pines, and I cannot close this article without bearing 

 testimony to one of the most eminent men of his time 

 in this department of horticulture. 



I^NDEX OF THE GRAPES. 



Aleppo - 62 Black Chasselas - - 9 



Alexandrian Ciotat - 41 Black Constantia - - 30 



Alicant . 1 Black Corinth - 2 



Auvergne . 9 Black Damascus - 3 



Auverna - 9 Black Damson - 24 



Black Ascalon - - 2 Black Frontignac - 4? 



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