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ON THE VINERY. 



each, and the top shoot to six or seven eyes, or, in 

 general, to about one and a half feet. See plate iii. 

 fig. 5. 



The shoots between the uprights must constantly 

 be pruned down to two or three eyes each, in order 

 to keep up a competent succession of the bottom- 

 wood. 



In the following or sixth season, the training 

 and pruning must be nearly the same as in the 

 preceding, with this only difference, that the 

 uprights having advanced one and an half feet, 

 every upright will admit of two side shoots more 

 than in the former year, viz. three on each side. 

 See plate iii. fig. 6. 



When the Vines are arrived at this stage the 

 wall will, in the next summer, be completely 

 covered by the principals only ; and, therefore, 

 the temporary plants should by degrees be pre- 

 viously cut away to make room for them. 



Here I wish not to be understood as affirming 

 that the principals will always arrive at this state 

 (viz. the sixth stage) 5 at the sixth season after 

 planting. — Vines are liable to impediments and 

 obstructions from various causes ; and so long as 

 they make weak shoots in the summer, they must 

 invariably be cut short down to two or three eyes 

 at the next winter's pruning, without having re- 

 gard to any of the stages, as has been set forth. 



The future management of Vines, thus com- 

 pletely and regularly trained, will not be very 

 difficult. 



