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ON THE MANAGEMENT 



In the next season, the horizontal shoots will 

 produce new wood from almost every eye, provided 

 all the shoots be pinched off from every other part 

 of these plants as soon as they appear. Lay in the 

 young wood at proper distances ; that is, the 

 shoots from one to two feet apart, according to 

 the kind of Vine to be trained, whether it produces 

 small or large leaves. But of this I shall have oc- 

 casion to treat more particularly hereafter. 



The shoots must all be trained in a perpendicular 

 direction j and provided they are strong and vigour- 

 pus, may be permitted to grow to the length of 

 five or six feet before they are stopped ; but these 

 shoots must all be cut down to two or three eyes 

 at the next winter's pruning. 



Only one shoot should be permitted to rise from 

 each spur the following season ; and although they 

 will, in general, be sufficiently strong, and produce 

 two or three bunches a-piece, yet only one bunch 

 should be suffered to remain upon each shoot ; 

 the remaining bunches will then be large and 

 fine» and the wood also will be greatly benefited 

 by this mode of practice. 



These shoots must be pruned next winter very 

 differently from the preceding. One shoot must 

 be left four feet, that next it only a few inches long, 

 and so on alternately, throughout the whole length 

 of the wall. The reason for this alternate differ- 

 ence in pruning, and for the continuation of the 

 future management of the Vines growing against 

 the back wall, will be given, when I come to trea£ 



