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without interfering with the windows or the light in the 
slightest degree. A slight alteration may be made in the 
planting if it is considered at all desirable, and four vines, 
two on each side of the door, may be planted instead of hav- 
ing two on one side, and one on the other, as in the present 
arrangement. 
The advantage of having two sets of vines — one set for the 
top and the other set for the lower half of the wall — is very 
considerable, for outdoor vines bear better when trained on 
the long-rod system, and it is seldom that twenty feet of 
well-matured rod is produced in our short summers. When 
the walls do not exceed twelve feet in height, one set of vines 
will be quite sufficient, and for ordinary walls they should be 
planted at a distance of four feet apart, and each vine allowed 
to carry four rods, two fruit-bearing canes and two young 
ones for bearing the following season. In planting them out 
of pots, carefully loosen the roots round the outside, and 
plant them deep enough to cover a few inches of the stem, 
from which healthy roots will be emitted in a short time after 
planting. 
The long-rod system of training, by which a constant suc- 
cession of young wood is maintained, is the most desirable 
for vines in the open air. The first season after planting they 
should be cut back to within about fifteen inches of the base. 
In the spring the two top buds should be selected for training 
horizontally, one to the right and the other to the left ; and 
when the one on the right has attained a length of eighteen 
inches, and the. one on the left six inches, they should be 
trained perpendicularly up the walls. These, if strong and 
well matured, may be left their whole length at the winter 
pruning, and, the following spring, two young rods should 
be trained up, at a distance of twelve inches from the base of 
the others — that on the right of the main stem, on the inside, 
and that on the left, on the outside of the perpendicular rods. 
By this system the latter will always be kept at a regular dis- 
tance apart, and the lateral growth will have ample space for 
development. For forming the second rod on the left, it will 
be necessary to select a strong shoot at the base of the first, 
and train it the proper distance horizontally, and then take it 
up in the manner mentioned above. If more than two bear- 
ing rods are required on each vine, a new cane, in the manner 
here mentioned, can be taken up each season, until the requi- 
site number is obtained. t 
