THEOKT AND PRACTICE OF PHUNING. 
not succeed now. The culture of the Vine in the open air cannot now (unless in our southern 
counties), be depended upon, and those who do not wish for sour grapes, had better not attempt it. 
The remarks which follow upon prun- 
( ing will apply with equal bearing upon 
in-door and external cultivation. 
Vines are generally raised from small 
cuttings with one bud and a little piece 
of last year's wood attached to it, (Fig. 
1). Sometimes they are raised from 
layers, but this is an obsolete mode. 
The cutting being placed in a small pot 
in a genial heat, soon emits roots, and 
after receiving the necessary shifting 1 
and attention during one season, becomes 
a young Vine (Fig. 2). 
Our young plant has now arrived at 
the state in which it would be offered 
for sale in the nurseries, and we will 
suppose that the requisite number and 
proper selection of Vines for either a 
house or a wall has been made. What- 
ever the season of planting may be, 
the young Vine must be cut back to 
two or three of its lowest buds, for the 
purpose of concentrating its energies, 
and in order that the sap which would 
have nourished an indefinite number of 
weak shoots, may produce only one 
vigorous growth. If all other circum- 
stances are favourable, the Vine will 
reach the top of the house the same 
year. It is then time to decide whether 
a separate vine shall be trained to every 
rafter, or whether one vine shall fill a 
portion or the whole of any allotted 
space. If it is wished to have several 
bearing stems to a single plant, the 
vine must be again cut down to two 
eyes, about eighteen inches in height, 
and the shoots which grow trained 
horizontally right and left ; these are 
intended to form the main branches 
from which other shoots will be trained 
perpendicularly, as in Fig. 3. The 
distance at which the perpendicular 
shoots may be, must be regu- 
lated by thinning the buds r\ 
on the shoot a at discretion. r \~| 
V\ T e will now suppose that •' 
each bud has made a vigorous 
shoot in the third year from 
planting, the Vine will have 
its full figure, and fruit will 
be expected. 
The fruit of the Vine being 
produced from the wood of 
Fig. 2. the second season, it becomes 
Fig. 5. 
Fig. 
necessary now to decide in what way that wood is to be produced so as to furnish an annual supply of fruit 
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