. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE VINE AJS^D ITS FEUIT. 311 leaves a defective piece of stem in the middle of the house, which no after-management can rectify. When the first cane is regnlarly furnished with spurs from the base to the apox of the house, a second rod should be started from the base; and when it also approaches the top, a third may be started from the opposite side of the original cane, where any particular vine or favourite variety, by its vigour or superior quality, shows that it is worthy of extension. But as the space allotted to each vine as soon as the leaves f
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE VINE AJS^D ITS FEUIT. 311 leaves a defective piece of stem in the middle of the house, which no after-management can rectify. When the first cane is regnlarly furnished with spurs from the base to the apox of the house, a second rod should be started from the base; and when it also approaches the top, a third may be started from the opposite side of the original cane, where any particular vine or favourite variety, by its vigour or superior quality, shows that it is worthy of extension. But as the space allotted to each vine as soon as the leaves fall, and the late houses which shed their leaves before the fruit is cut, should be pruned as soon as the grapes are removed. The vines in late houses do not often bleed when the sap begins to rise; those in early houses do ; hence the importance of dressing every cut with styptic as the work proceeds, as bleeding weakens the viues; and so powerful is the vital force, that the most stringent styptic fails to arrest it, if dressing is neglected until the sap is again on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901. London, Paris, New York Melbourne, Cassell & company, limited
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