192 THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



A vine should be six or eiglit years old before it be al- 

 lowed to cover so much wall as represented in the cut. 

 The first year of bearing, these upright shoots may be 

 pruned to about six feet, permitting them to extend 

 themselves two feet every year, until the wall is covered. 

 If the spurs are too close together, some of them must 

 be pruned out, so that every spur and shoot shall have 

 ample room. The shoot on the top spur, when the wall 

 is full, may be led along the top of the trellis till it has 

 grown five or six feet, when it can be pruned back to 

 about three feet, leaving the lateral to grow, which can 

 be stopped, if it grows too strong, in two or three weeks; 

 if not, let it grow till the shoots are stopped in Septem- 

 ber. In the winter pruning, this must be cut back, as 

 are the other shoots, to the one or two eyes. 



This trellis is made with three horizontal pieces of 

 boards, two inches wide by one and a quarter thick. 

 The first one is fifteen inches from the ground, the second 

 in the middle, and the third near the roof; these are se- 

 cured firmly, fourteen inches from the house, bj' board 

 cleats, quite stout, which are nailed to the trellis and 

 house. On these horizontal pieces are nailed the up- 

 right ones ; they should be one inch thick by two inches 

 wide, eight of them to a vine ; the distance between 

 them should be three feet from centre to centre. The 

 lower, or horizontal limbs of the vine, must be trained 

 to the lower horizontal strip, and the upright branches 

 trained one to each upright piece, and well secured by 

 tying. (See cut.) 



E. T. Underbill, M.D., of the city of New York, has 

 a vineyard on the Hudson, where he raises large quan- 



