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lu planting them on the prepared soil, no other care is 
requisite, than to unravel the roots; for if the plant be well 
established in the pot, the I’oots will have made many convolu- 
tions. The month of March, or early part of April, is the 
most eligible period for planting, and a slight top-dressing of 
half-rotten manure, should be laid over the surface, in order to 
prevent the injurious effects of drought, and to supersede the 
necessity of watering. 
We may no w proceed to treat on the work of training. Many 
elaborate processes of the kind have been proposed in horticul- 
tural publications, which have little to recommend them when 
subjected to the analysis of experience. They are in some 
cases, very complicated, and occasion much trouble ; although 
they may appear very fascinating on paper. The old fan mode 
will be found perhaps more eligible, for Vines against dwelling 
houses, than any other ; but for the garden wall, we would train 
shoots right and left, six inches from, and parallel to, the 
ground level, to the desired distance ; and carry up permanent 
leaders from them, perpendicularly, to the top of the wall. These 
leaders should be a foot apart, for any attempt at crowding 
together a greater number of principals, will assurely defeat the 
end in view, by shading the principal leaves ; for which, when 
even fully exposed, the light of our fitful climate is perhaps less 
sufficient than the heat itself. From these principals, subordi- 
nate shoots must be encouraged to proceed at regular distances ; 
making it a point not to suffer two together, as in the case of 
the Fig. The production of these side shoots must be caused 
by an annual shortening of the young shoots, as they pro- 
ceed from the base upwards; and to this end (however much 
they may grow in a season,) they should be shortened back to 
about two feet, at each winter’s pruning, until they reach the 
top of the wall. 
The subsequent winter pruning will be of a very simple cha- 
racter; merely shortening back the young shoots of the prece- 
ding summer, to about two or three eyes or buds ; or in fact to 
any bud that appears very protuberant. The side shoots may 
then be confined by matting, to the main stems, as in the case 
of the Fig; or nailed close beside them ; always keeping a naked 
space of wall between the parallel shoots, for the absorption 
of solar heat. 
