By Mr. John Mearns. 249 



rals. I only allowed the strongest of the two leading shoots 

 to run about three, four, or five joints beyond the middle of 

 the roof, (where I intended to cut them at their winter prun- 

 ing) according to the vigour of the different shoots : and 

 then I pinched off their tops, in order to strengthen the eyes 

 for the ensuing season. The weaker shoots I only suffered 

 to run about three, four, or five feet, according to their 

 strength, and I then pinched off their tops, never allowing 

 them to push above two or three eyes from the same place, 

 during the remainder of the season, without pinching them 

 back ; and then retaining only a single eye, unless I found it 

 necessary, in consequence of the vigour of the Vine. I kept 

 the laterals stopt back also to the first leaf. At the fall of the 

 leaf, I cut the leading shoots at the middle of the rafter, 

 and the lower one at the third eye, as is here represented. 



The above sketch represents four separate Vine plants, at 

 the end of the second season after they had been planted, 

 when the strongest shoot had been headed down to the mid- 

 dle of the rafter D, and the weakest shoot to C. 



