222 THK CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



It is liable to the same objections that all the long cane 

 systems of training are.* 



The long, or succession mode of pruning, is recom- 

 mended by Mr. Loudon, and many others. It is thus : — 



The^rs^ year^ one shoot only is allowed to grow, which 

 is cut down, at the autumn pruning, to the second or 

 third eye. 



The second year, two shoots are encouraged, the 

 strongest of which must be stopped three or four buds 

 beyond the middle of the root, the weaker one after grow- 

 ino' three or four feet. 



At the fall of the leaf, the shoots are to be reduced ; 



* Extrac*.s from a Journal of a Horticultural Tour. By a deputation of 

 the Caledonian Horticultural Society. Edinburgh, 1823 : — 



, Ghent, Stat of the Baron de Vrocylande. 



"There are two small vineries, which did not afford us much satisfaction. 

 The vines are planted in front, on the outside of tlie house. Every year, a 

 new set of wood is taken into the vinery; the wood produced this yeir, is 

 trained upright, on an exterior trellis, and is, next season, laid down to a 

 sloping trellis, and made to yield its fruit within the house. 



" The wood which has once been forced, is cut entirely out ; and from 

 the same roots, new upriglit shoots are. annually, required. Tlie shoots 

 which had been forced, still remained, and a bare inspection -was sufficient 

 to satisfy any one, that they could have afforded but very few grapes. 

 The exterior, upright shoots, of this season, were, at the same time, in a 

 very backward state, and there was (sixteenth August,) little prospect of 

 their acquhing maturity this year." 



The natural soil of tlie garden is represented as light and sandy ; but no 

 nention is made of the border for the vines. 



At the seat of Madame Vilain Qnatorze, also, at Ghent, the same method 

 of forcing the grape is pursued, and the result is, sickly and weak vines. 



At Brussels, also, they found similar training and pruning, and with no 

 better success. 



This plan of training, etc., is upon the renewal system, and, where this 

 is adopted and conti:!%'.od for many years, the effect must be to weaken tho 

 vine. 



