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GRAPE. 



a young' bottom shoot to be trained up in its place. 

 The next oldest branch bears fruit on the second or 

 middle third of its length, and gains the top of the 

 wall at the same time. The next branch rose from 

 the bottom in the last year, and bears its fruit on the 

 lower third of the height of the wall. Thus it may 

 be perceived, that every three adjacent branches are 

 of three different lengths when pruned ; each occupy- 

 ing different heights on the wall, and regularly suc- 

 ceeding each other in height, and as the highest are 

 cut out, succeeded by young ones from below. 



A wall covered by trees, planted so closely toge- 

 ther, can always be depended upon for a supply of 

 strong shoots from below ; and the author has found 

 it better than either Kennedy's or Speechley's me- 

 thods of using fewer trees, and making them meet, 

 to furnish the wall, by training horizontally two of 

 the first branches, from which upright shoots are 

 afterwards trained up. 



The author knows some vines trained in this way 

 in the Brompton Park Nursery, that were probably 

 planted by Loudon and Wise : showing how tenacious 

 of life the root of the grape vine is. 



The best time for pruning the vine is in the 

 autumn, as soon as the growth ceases. Leaving this 

 work till February, is not at all judicious. 



The different modes of training described above, 

 may be practised in vineries. In pine stoves, the 

 long branch spurred (one only being under each 

 rafter) is most convenient. But there is another 

 mode of pruning often practised : that is, by long 



