. An encyclopædia of gardening; . spring. When the plant is established, the imme-diate bearers, or shoots of the growing season, and the mother bearers, or shoots of the last years growth,are thus managed. Soon after the growing season has commenced, such rising shoots as either are in fruitand fit to be retained, or are eligibly placed for mother bearers next season, are laid in, either horizontallyor with a slight diagonal rise, at something less than a foot distance, measuring from one bearing shoot tothe next: the rising shoots, intended to form young wood, sliould be taken as near the or
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . spring. When the plant is established, the imme-diate bearers, or shoots of the growing season, and the mother bearers, or shoots of the last years growth,are thus managed. Soon after the growing season has commenced, such rising shoots as either are in fruitand fit to be retained, or are eligibly placed for mother bearers next season, are laid in, either horizontallyor with a slight diagonal rise, at something less than a foot distance, measuring from one bearing shoot tothe next: the rising shoots, intended to form young wood, sliould be taken as near the origin of thebranch as a good one offers, to allow of cutting away, beyond the adopted lateral, a greater quantity ofthe branch, as it becomes old wood ; the new-sprung laterals, not wanted for one of these-two objects, arepinched off. The treatment of those retained, during the rest of the summer, thus differs. As the shootsin bearing extend in growth, they are kept stopped about two eyes beyond the fruit: — the connate Book I. CULTURE OF THE VINERY. 545 cultivated merely to enlarge the provision of wood, are divested of embryo bunches, if they, eho^ any;but are trained at full length as they advance during the summer, until tliey reach the allotted bounds :were they stopped in the middle oftheir growth, it would cause them to throw out troublesome lateralsIn the wii:ter pruning, there will thus be a great choice of mother bearers. That nearest the originof the for ner mother bearer, or most commodiously placed, is retained, and the other or others on thesame branch are cut away; the rest of the branch is also taken otf, so that the old wood may terminatewith the adopted lateral: the adopted shoot is then shortened to two, three, four, or a greater number ofeyes, according to its place on the vine, its own strength, or the strength of the vine. The lower shootsare pruned-in the shortest, in order to keep the means of always supplying young wood at the bottom ofthe tr
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