130 THE CULTUEE OF THE GRAPE. 



Fifth Tear. 



Fifth year, the same general treatment is to be pur- 

 sued ; the leading cane must be stopped at the top of the 

 house, leaving two or three of the extreme laterals to 

 grow a short time, and stopping them at intervals of 

 four or five days, the top one first. 



Tou may now allow the vines to bear twenty pounds 

 of fruit, and, as they grow older and stronger, you can 

 increase the weight to twenty-five pounds. I have never 

 seen more than this quantity ripened on a vine, in this 

 country, (under ordinary circumstances,) without injuring 

 the crop the year after. It is true, we often hear of 

 much larger crops, but my experience will not warrant 

 anything of the kind. 



liemarJcahle Vines. — In England there are two very 

 remarkable vines, which are said to produce, yearly, 

 over two thousand bunches. One of these, that at 

 Hampton Court, I saw in the summer of 1836 ; it 

 then was bearing a crop of over two thousand bunches ; 

 they were, generally, small, however, and the berries 

 were not large ; the man having charge of the house 

 said that it did not look as well as usual. In 1846, a 

 gentleman who visited it describes the bunches as small, 

 but numerous, and looking well ; the roof of the house 

 is covered with the vine ; it is trained horizontally, and 

 passes, two or three times, the whole length of the roof. 

 The pruning is on the spur system, but a shoot is laid 

 in, wherever wanted to fill a vacant space. 



" The, vine at Hampton Court Palace, which was 

 planted in the year 1Y69, has a stem of thirteen inches 



