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This system of pruning is not suitable for every locality, and 

 soon exhausts the vine unless it is of a particularly vigorous growing 

 sort, established on deep fertile soil. It suits the Currants, Crystal, 

 Sultana, Gros Colraan, Wortley Hall, Almeria, and also those 

 individual vines which show an exaggerated tendency "to go to 

 wood," and for that reason are often shy bearers. 



GARDEN TRELLISES. 



Perhaps nowhere is the want of systematic training and prun- 

 ing of the vine more glaringly exhibited than on the private garden 

 trellises. The second of the two 

 accompanying illustrations forcibly 

 exhibits such amateurish method 

 of training and pruning vines. 

 There the vines are allowed to grow 

 without restraint, and at pruning time 

 canes are bent and directed in the 

 most fanciful manner to fill a gap 

 here and there. These vines, which 

 are generally grown in close proximity 

 to the house, as a rule receive more 

 attention ; they are manured, sul- 

 phured, the ground is dug round 

 them, and as they bear well the 

 owner takes little or no trouble in 

 the first years of their growth to 

 train them with some sort of method, 

 until with years his mistakes are made 

 apparent to him. The side buds are 

 robbed by the higher ones, they get 

 feebler and feebler, and at last cease 

 to grow at all ; the sides of the trellis 

 become denuded, and all the energy of 

 the vine is spent 011 the top. The sketch 

 printed in these pages illustrates a 

 method of training vines on the home 

 trellis which, if copied, will result in 

 the owner deriving from his vines both 

 shelter and fruit. The sketch is drawn 

 to scale, the vines planted six feet 

 apart, and trained with one permanent 

 arm only. On that arm, at intervals 

 of 10 to 12 inches, spurs are left and 

 cut back to two eyes, unless the vine 

 shows a tendency of running riot, in 

 which case one of the methods of 

 pruning reviewed in a previous chapter 

 on pruning, and preferably the modi- 

 fied Cazenave method, may be adopted. 

 This method consists in leaving on 

 the permanent arms one or several 



long rods supplied 'with five to ten The proper way of Training Vines 



on the Garden Trellis. 



