. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. 382 THE FRUIT GARDEN from each other; and the first is at from the soil. One or two shoots are taken each year according to their vigour. Horizontal cordons are obtained and treated in the same way as simple cordons. As for varieties with long shoots, every year one growth should be trained in to produce fruit, and another should be cut down to two eyes in order to secure successional shoots. This cultivation produces much fruit, but vigorous vines are necessary ; and to secure them much manuring is needed. Of all these forms the palmate is
. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. 382 THE FRUIT GARDEN from each other; and the first is at from the soil. One or two shoots are taken each year according to their vigour. Horizontal cordons are obtained and treated in the same way as simple cordons. As for varieties with long shoots, every year one growth should be trained in to produce fruit, and another should be cut down to two eyes in order to secure successional shoots. This cultivation produces much fruit, but vigorous vines are necessary ; and to secure them much manuring is needed. Of all these forms the palmate is by far the most practical. Grapes for the table are furnished chiefly from the southern regions, and !^^. Another Method of Forming the T for the Thomery Form of Vine Training By pinching the shoot a little below the T and training two growths from there. next from the neighbourhood of Paris, especially from the districts of Thomery, Conflans, &c. Thinning the grapes, which consists of removing with the scissors the inner berries, and of thinning those which are too close together, takes place at the end of June, and continues till mid-July. It serves to hasten the ripening, to increase the size of the individual berries, and to make their preservation easier. Gathering should be done in dry rather than wet weather. Bunches of dried grapes can be preserved by placing them upon racks, or by suspending them. Bunches of fresh grapes can be kept by inserting the stems in flasks of fresh water, with a little charcoal in it to prevent decomposition. In this case the grapes must be gathered with a sufKcient length of shoot to fix them in the flasks and to enable them to draw up moisture. Double partition walls in fruit-rooms are even more necessary for grapes than for apples and pears. It is a good thing to burn a very little sulphur now and then to lessen the atmos- pheric Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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