. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. The fourth spring in February remove the 1, 2,4, 5, and 6 buds, bending the shoots down horizontally thus : Fig. and training the shoots from buds 3 and 7 as there represented. Prune and train as before directed during the summer, removing also superfluous shoots, and in November cut back a and c to about eight or twelve buds according to the stiength of the vine; and b and d so as to leave only one bud on each. In the fifth spring train the shoots from these single buds in the same waving form as before. " The vine," says Mr. Hoare
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. The fourth spring in February remove the 1, 2,4, 5, and 6 buds, bending the shoots down horizontally thus : Fig. and training the shoots from buds 3 and 7 as there represented. Prune and train as before directed during the summer, removing also superfluous shoots, and in November cut back a and c to about eight or twelve buds according to the stiength of the vine; and b and d so as to leave only one bud on each. In the fifth spring train the shoots from these single buds in the same waving form as before. " The vine," says Mr. Hoare, to whose valuable work I am indebted for most of the preceding directions, " has now assumed the form which it is permanently to retain, and the man- ner in which it is trained may be con- sidered as the commencement of a sys- tem of alternately fruiting two shoots, and training two at full length for bear- ing wood in the following year; which method may be continued every year without any alteration until the capacity of the vine is equal to the maturation of more fruit than can possibly be borne by two single shoots, which, on an aver- age, may be estimated at sixty pounds weight annually. Several years must elapse before this will be the case; but when it is, the arms may be easily lengthened by the training in of a shoot at their extremities, and managing it in the same manner as when the arms of the vine first formed. It is very advis- able, however, that the vine should not be suffered to extend itself further on the wall, for in such case, the bearing shoots emitted from the centre are sure to decline in strength ; whereas, by confining the dimensions of the vine to a single arm on each side of the stem, and each arm to the support and nou- rishment of two branches only, the very best description of bearing shoots will never fail to be generated close at home,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhan
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