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XXXI. On a Mode of training Vines, in a Letter to Tho- 

 mas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S.tyc. By Mr. 

 Joseph Hayward. 



Read November 7, 1809. 



Sir, 



1 h e pleasure I have received from some of your ideas re- 

 lative to the cultivation and improvement of various fruits, 

 as expressed in different publications, (more especially in The 

 Transactions of the Horticultural Society?) has emboldened me 

 thus to address you, and to offer the following remarks on 

 training Vines, through you, to the Horticultural Society. 



I must first state that I have no pretensions to literature, 

 my occupation and habits, as a woollen manufacturer, afford- 

 ing little leisure for extensive study or reading; and that Hitt 

 on Fruit Trees, first suggested to me the following mode of 

 training Vines, the value of which you will readily appreciate. 



Previous to training any tree, for the purpose of obtaining 

 the greatest quantity of fruit, its mode of bearing should be 

 considered, and the object of the cultivator must of course 

 be, to obtain the greatest quantity of bearing wood, equally 

 and properly distributed. The Vine is a creeping plant, 

 throwing out the most luxuriant shoots at the extremity of 

 its branches, whether these are laid horizontal or perpendi- 

 cular. In training this fruit tree, it is necessary to keep three 

 main objects in view : First, to cover the space allotted to it 

 with fruit branches, leaving room for both ripening the fruit, 



