PRUNING AND TRAINING. 123 
modes of cultivation which would appear to speak to the 
centrarypbut observe the ultimate results patiently, with 
eare and without sae and all these abuses will tell 
their own woful t 
One of the causes why the grape vine so soon wears 
out, as it is generally considered to do, is produced by 
such close pruning as we yearly subject it to—the volume 
of the plants is increased for three or four years at first, 
and afterwards only allowed the same extent of surface. 
There is no other fruit-bearing plant that would continue 
to prosper long with this treatment ; take for example a 
peach or an apple, allow either the one or the other to 
produce a long straight stem of twelve or fifteen feet, and 
cut in the side branches to an eye, never suffering it any 
further extension but what is produced in the summer— 
again to be cut out—and it sate after a few years’ constant 
excitement, dwindle down to a mere stump, and finally die 
If the grape-vine does not show the same so readily, 
it is only because of its extremely tenacious constitutional 
powers, for the same law governs both, and both alike 
ust sooner or later arrive at the same imbecile condition 
As a vine, if extended over a great space, would only 
admit of a limited number being grown, it becomes neces- 
sary to explain how this may be accomplished ; and like- 
wise how, during the interval, the usual crop may be 
secured. In planting, place in the centre of the intended 
row a vine of known gooa qualities; at intervals of about 
twelve feet plant others of salt sity and fill up the 
vacancies with sorts as fancy may dictate, so that each 
one may stand about three feet apart from the next. 
During ‘the first two seasons train all up as usual; so far 
we have elongated the surface upwards, and the canes 
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