bookings' garden manual. 



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of training is figured at the commencement of this 

 article : — 



" The two buds left on the set are allowed to form 

 two upright shoots the next summer, which, at the end 

 of the season, are brought down to a horizontal posi- 

 tion, and fastened each way to the lower horizontal rail 

 of the trellis, being shortened to three or four feet, or 

 such a distance each way as it is wished to have the 

 plant extend. The next year upright shoots are 

 allowed to grow one foot apart, and these are stopped 

 at the top of the trellis. The third year, the trellis 

 being filled with vines, a set of lateral shoots will be 

 produced from the upright leaders, with from one to 

 three bunches on each. The vine is now perfect, and 

 it is only necessary at the autumnal or winter pruning 

 to cut back the lateral shoots or fruit spurs to within 

 an inch of the uprights, and new laterals, producing 

 fruit, will annually supply their places. If it should 

 be found, after several years' bearing, that the grapes 

 fail in size or flavor, the vines should be cut down 

 to the main horizontal shoots at the bottom of the trellis. 

 New uprights will be produced, which treat as before." 



In following the above directions, it must be observed 

 that unless the vines are in full vigor it will be unwise 

 to leave the two long shoots the first season. Unless 

 very strong, they should each be pruned back to two 

 eyes, from which select the following season the strongest 

 shoots to train in as directed. As to the fruit, also, it 

 will be necessary to prevent the vines over bearing the 

 first few seasons, by removing the surplus bunches as 

 they appear. 



In all operations connected with the vine, see that 

 the foliage is not injured, and in the summer pruning 

 do not remove a leaf unnecessarily. The summer 

 pruning consists of destroying all suckers, stopping 

 with the thumb and finger the shoots three leaves 

 beyond the last bunch of fruit, to forward the swelling, 

 and removing or stopping all lateral branches. 



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