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TREATMENT OF THE 



of training up a shoot from the bottom a 

 year or two previous to the time it is design- 

 ed to cut down the Vine; for in that case 

 the shoot cannot always attain sufficient 

 strength to enable it to produce fruit as it 

 ought to do for the first year or two after 

 heading down, by reason of having to support 

 spurs and fruit at the same time the shoot is 

 coming on, and upon which you are to de- 

 pend for a supply. But when the Vine is 

 cut entirely down, it will make a vigorous 

 shoot which will bear abundantly the second 

 year. In pruning the shoot produced by 

 heading down, let it be cut at the first win- 

 ter pruning, so as to leave it six or seven 

 feet long; and at the second winter pruning 

 in proportion to its strength : the future 

 treatment of them must be as directed for 

 young Vines. 



The other mode of treating Vines which 

 are cultivated in a stove, (before alluded to) 

 is according to the following manner: — 



The Vines are planted in the manner al- 

 ready described, and the treatment of them 

 for the first summer is in every respect as 

 for Vines trained to bear upon spurs. 



First Year, Winter Pruning. — It will 



occasionally happen that some of the Vines 

 will grow a great deal more vigorously than 

 others. In pruning them at this time they 

 must be treated according to their strength. 

 If the shoots be so strong as to be two inches 



