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THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
After the space is fully occupied, the canes which have 
borne fruit should, at the winter pruning, be pruned back to 
within a few inches of their base, and the young canes indi- 
cated by the dotted lines shortened back to their proper 
length, and allowed to bear a crop of fruit the following 
season. In the spring, a number of shoots will push from the 
base of the cane pruned back in the winter, and the strongest 
must be selected for training up to take the place of the one 
LONG IlOD TRAINING OP OUTDOOR VINES TO WALLS OP DWELLING 
HOUSES. 
removed. This, in its turn, will have to take the place of the 
present fruit-bearing cane, and, again in its turn, have to 
make way for others ; the young canes should be stopped 
once during the summer, when they have attained about half 
their length, to strengthen the lower buds, and they should also 
be stopped when they have attained their full length. 
If the canes are short-jointed, it will be necessary to remove 
