OP THE VINE. 



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season^ which spring from wood of last season. 

 This is very important to be critically observed by 

 every person who attempts to prune a vine. It may 

 well be allowed to bear eight runners, trained 

 horizontally or vertically, according to the taste of 

 the cultivator; of these, four may at the winter 

 pruning, be shortened down to a single bud, and 

 the four others intermediate be trained vertically in 

 a serpentine form, so high as to give the number of 

 buds to which you would limit your vine. The long 

 branches will bear fruit the present year, throwing 

 out a shoot at every bud, and every shoot bearing 

 several clusters. These shoots are to be cut down 

 to a single bud, at the next winter pruning. The 

 intermediate four spurs or buds, will each send forth 

 one shoot, which must be trained vertically between 

 the bearing branches on the trellis, or building; 

 those are to be the bearing wood for the next year. 



The above engraving illustrates the method 

 adopted by many, of training vines upon wires run- 

 ning through posts set in the ground, or wound 

 around nails driven into the posts. The manner of 



