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given instructions for the performing of this work, in the espalier 

 form. The very same instructions apply to walls and to houses, 

 and also to roofs, seeing that, on roofs, it is merely a trellis- work 

 lying in a sloping attitude. I have supposed a new plantation of 

 vines to be made expressly for espalier training ; and, with 

 several sorts of grapes, this method would succeed perfectly well 

 in the south of England, in warm spots and at no great distance 

 from walls facing the south. I shall therefore now repeat, with some 

 little variations as to season and other circumstances, my direc- 

 tions for training and pruning the vines in espalier. First look at 

 plate 8 (p. 208), which represents, as well as I am able to make 



it represent, three trellis-works for 

 vines. These trellis- works are to 

 be five feet high, and to consist 

 of little upright bars, two and a 

 half inches by two inches, put two 

 feet into the ground, and made 

 of locust w^ood. The proper 

 situation for vines would be in a 

 line on the south side of the north 

 wall, or on the south side of the 

 south wall, and at about seven feet 

 from the wall, leaving plenty of 

 room for the work to be performed 

 on the wall-trees as well as on the 

 trellis. The length of such line 

 would be 200 feet ; and, allowing 

 for the thickness of the walls, and 

 for the door-way coming into the 

 hot-bed ground (in case you choose the south side of the 

 north wall), and for the door-way going from the inner to 

 the outer garden, if you choose the other wall, there would be 

 space for twelve vines at sixteen feet apart. You would, therefore, 

 plant your cuttings or your young vines at that distance. Look 

 now at the plate above, which represents the cutting become 

 a plant, or the young vine, having made its first year's shoot. 

 There is no difference in the treatment ; but, in order to avoid 

 unnecessary words, let us suppose it to have been a cuttmg, and 

 suppose it to have been tied to a little stake during the summer. 



