v6 THE GRAPE. 
and very pretty object, but much depends upon the sicety 
of training. To gain this advantage, the plant ought not 
to be longer than is actually necessary, and the fruiting 
branches should be as near the surface of the pot as is 
eonsistent with securing good plump buds to start from, 
which can be mostly gained with a cane of two feet six 
inches to three feet long. After it is seen which shoots 
will produce the best bunches, choose six or seven which 
are uearly equidistant from each other, between the top 
and bottom, and as they elongate tie them 
- out horizontaliy, diverging on all sides 
m the stem, which may be very neat- 
iy done by fixing a wire trellis, as seen 
in fig. 15, inside the pot. This is also ser- 
viceable to suspend the shoulders of the 
bunches to, and if not made of teo heavy 
material, is scarcely visible, being decidedly 
preferable to a display of wooden supports. 
It should, however, be put over the plant 
is danger of breaking the igre shoots, es 
quence when the wood is not over strong, and “nder these 
cireumstances the bearing shoots may be eut clean away 
‘so soon as the fruit is ent, which adults the light and sun 
to the remaining leaves on the maiden spurs, thereby 
enabling them to have full scope, and mega ers 
_ dom during the after part of the summ Immediately 
_ after the leaves are fallen is the best psig 
at the same time, the reots that have gone into the soil 
_ below may be cut away, the pots cleaned, and the vines 
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