By Mr. John Robertson. 



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the cordon. They should this season be fastened only 

 obliquely to the treillage, as they cannot with safety be laid 

 in a horizontal position until the next ; they are then to be 

 shortened to three eyes each, the extreme eye to form a 

 continuation of the cordon, and the two others to form spurs. 

 The season following, these spurs must be cut down to two 

 eyes, and the terminal shoot shortened to three, two of which 

 are to produce bearing spurs as in the previous year, and that 

 at the extremity is to prolong the cordon ; every succeeding 

 year the same practice is followed, until each arm has acquired 

 the length of four feet, when the terminal shoot is also to be 

 reduced to a spur, but of the greater length of three or four 

 eyes. 



The remaining Vines, B, C, D, and E, being each in suc- 

 cession to form cordons, one above the other, should, when 

 they reach their appointed stations or bars, be also headed 

 down to the three eyes next the levels of those bars ; two 

 of these are to be reserved to form arms right and left, as 

 at the lowest bar, and the third, being useless, is displaced ; 

 these arms are in every respect to be treated as already di- 

 rected for the cordon of that bar, until each arm has attained 

 the same length of four feet. Such shoots as in the mean 

 time are produced on the stems below the arms are to be 

 spurred for fruit, but as soon as the cordons are perfectly 

 formed, these should be cleared off and the stems left bare. 



During the formation of the cordons, the spurs on their 

 arms will successively come into bearing, and each when 

 pruned down at the season to two or three eyes, will produce 

 as many shoots with fruit. Of these, at the next winter's 

 pruning, only the lowest shoot is to be suffered to remain, 



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