104 On the Management of Grapes in Vineries. 



must be treated and pruned as before described. The eyes 

 on the one and two year old wood will bear in this year, 

 and must be managed as explained in the directions for the 

 preceding years. 



The rafter will now have a single stem of bearing wood, 

 extending its whole length ; the single eyes which are left 

 after the winter pruning, at each joint will, in each year, 

 produce fruit, and will continue to do so for some years. 

 The stem will have a disposition to produce from its end a 

 strong leading shoot, but this must not be suffered to grow 

 into length, it must be stopped during its growth in the sum- 

 mer leaving three or four joints at the utmost, and these must 

 be cut away, at the time of pruning, down to the old wood, 

 or nearly so ; sometimes, to prevent the top of the house 

 being crowded, a little of the old wood at top may be cut 

 off also, and replaced by the next year's shoot. 



The repeated cutting will form, in time, coarse and rug- 

 ged spurs on the old stem : i is therefore desirable, when 

 the stem is about ten years old, to cut it away entirely, hav- 

 ing previously trained up from the bottom, in the two pre- 

 ceding years, a young stem to substitute in its place. 



The above detail relates to the management of a single 

 branch ; in process of time, however, the plant becomes suf- 

 ficiently strong to furnish wood, from the point where it 

 enters the house, for a second and a third branch, and in 

 some cases even for a fourth : such branches are, therefore, 

 to be successively brought forward, and trained to the con- 

 tiguous rafters, one bearing branch being applied to each 

 rafter, and the plants which originally belonged to these 

 rafters to be thus occupied, must be taken away entirely. 



