GRAPE-VINE—PRUNING AND TRAINING. 329 
succession, and admit a uniformity of treatment in each 
house. Where there is not a suite of vineries, but only 
one large house, the late varieties should be placed near 
the entrance of the-flues, where the temperature is higher. 
Pruning. and Training.-—Very numerous have been the 
directions given in reference to, these particulars; but we 
cannot heré.go into; such details, nor is it. necessary. The 
great object is the reproduction of bearing, that is, annual 
wood, over. the whole surface of the house. When this is 
accomplished, the next matter to be determined is the num- 
ber of eyes or buds to be left on each shoot, that 1s, 
whether we shall adopt the short or the dong system of 
pruning. The former is most allied to the practice of 
foreign vineyards, and has been most successfully employed 
in this country. According to this method, all the lateral 
shoots are cut down to single eyes, as described in Lond. 
Hfortic. Trans., iv., 104. For a particular description of 
the dong system, we may refer to the same volume, p. 246, 
or to Loudon’s Encyclopedia’ of Gardening, second 
edition, p. 548. To these references, we shall only add a 
few general remarks. (1.) It ought to be the great aim of 
the British gardener to make his vines grow as luxuriantly 
as possible; for the good. quality of the grapes, when pro- 
perly ripened, is generally commensurate with the strength 
of the shoots and size of the berries. The borders should 
therefore be made rich; but they ought to be rather wide 
than deep, deep planting being adverse to the ripening of 
the fruit. (2.) In order to secure a proper degree of vigor, 
vines should be limited in extent and pruned during winter, 
rather severely than otherwise. To enable us to circum: 
scribe the plants, it would be well to introduce as many 
separate plants into the vinery as can be done without con- 
fusion. For an illustration of this principle. we may refer 
