By Mr. Joseph Haywaud. 



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collaterals rubbed off, those branches will of course receive 

 the full strength of the wood sap, and be in the most per- 

 fect state for fruiting next year. The winter following, let 

 all the branches which bore the fruit be cut off close to the 

 old wood, and those which are selected for the next year, 

 marked O, be shortened to their proper length, and fastened 

 down close to the old wood, to reach to the commencement 

 of the young wood, continued from the extremity, as CD, 

 in Fig. B, which it will then represent ; the two branches, 

 CC, which bore the fruit, will then be covered with young 

 wood, FF, which will fill the same space with fruit the next, as 

 those did the last, year ; and the young shoots being fastened 

 close to the old, will take very little additional room : the two 

 branches, DD, are to be laid parallel with the first horizontals, 

 at the distance of from twelve to eighteen inches, and kept in 

 the same manner as those the first year. In the followingsuni- 

 mer the tree will be as in Plate IX. Fig. E; and if kept as 

 directed for A. 2, will, with its addition, be as B; the branches 



000 being laid horizontal as before. Thus it is obvious, 

 the tree may be continued to any extent its root will supply, 

 and every part of the wall covered with fruit the last, as it 

 was the first, year. When the tree has gone the length 

 allotted, it might be kept there, by cutting out the old hori- 

 zontals, as MM, Fig. E. and bringing the others in its place. 



1 am of opinion that the greater length the sap has to pass 

 through the body of the Vine, and its branches, the more 

 abundant, fine, and higher flavoured will the fruit be, and on 

 this principle I have trained them, as F, and it answers my 

 expectation ; and if this principle is correct, it must answer in 

 every situation, and contrary to the mode generally adopted 



