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ports reaching to it is about 7 ft. from the ground. The middle plant is 
* Trebbiano,' sixteen years old, with only half a dozen small bunches. 
This also I intend to graft with better open-air varieties. The Vine on 
the left is a ' Syrian,' thirteen years old, with very strong stout wood. It 
has three bunches of its own, only one of which is of the usual immense 
size. The fate of these is to go under pie-crust, as if they were Goose- 
berries. One year I put them in with all the others to make wine. 
There is a graft on the right arm of this Vine with six bunches of red 
Grapes, but these have got mildew this year. I am not sorry for having 
tried and studied the ' Syrian.' I have four of them, but shall clear them 
out in favour of Moore's Early, Chasselas Rose, and some others more 
suitable to our climate. 
The shape of these two Vines I take to be the best either on a wall 
Fig. 56.— Gable of Mr. Will Tayler's House, showing ' Chasselas ' Vine, Southern Exposure. 
Peaches and Nectarines on same Wall under the Vine. A Pipe carrying off Rain Water 
FROM THE Roof ends the Wall on the left. 
or in vineyard rows. It is Clement Hoare's long rod system produced 
according to his rules. 
Another sketch shows the best open-air Grapes I have seen this year. 
The Vine is a ' Chasselas Rose,' on the south gable of Mr. Will Tayler's 
house at Hampton. It is higher on the wall than I should grow it, and. 
involves considerable ladder work to train and develop it (fig. 56). Most 
possessors of such a Vine would get little or nothing from it. It is the 
common neglect or mismanagement of wall Vines that keeps back the 
general and profitable cultivation of them. This one of Mr. Tayler's 
is a great advance on ordinary methods, and the result is most encourag- 
ing. Mr. Tayler received this Vine from Germany under the name of 
' Reine Olga.' 
