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lowing spring pruning, the laterals, rf,
which had been nailed to the wall, are
each side shoot; the first about three
inches from the stem, as the bud may
loosened and tied to their main shoot, suit, and the other at the end of the
e, and the upright shoot shortened to
three buds, as before.
" At the end of the third summer the
laterals will be doubled on the old wood
shortened shoots, so as to double the
leading shoots. The upright shoot is
always cut at three of the lowest and
most suitable buds, so that the stem may
by one having sprung from the base of be kept as short as possible for, unless
;
the shoot tied in, g, and another from the side shoots are multiplied, the stem
its extremity, /i. lu the pruning of the gets too high. If the side shoots are
p. .„_ strong the year after cutting down, they
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may be laid in their whole length ; but
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[if weak, they must be cut short to give
them strength. Continue in this way to
double the side shoots for two or three
years, by which the tree will get
strength, and then it will admit of the
side shoot being shortened to about
fourteen inches. Cut for two or three
.
I years, so as to produce three shoots
upon each side shoot, and so continue
- „ . . ..1.1 /• ' . until there is a sufficient number of
followmg spring the laterals of two ^^^^. ^^^^,^ ^^ j-^^^j^,, ^^^^ ^^^ji_
years' growth, which had borne fruit, ,,
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are cut off close, and the young laterals
; ^^j cut the lateral shoots to about
which had sprung from their base, f,
are loosened from the wall, and tied
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eight or nine inches, taking care to cut
at a wood-bud ; and at the time of disbudding
leave the best situated buds,
and those nearest the base, for the
future year's bearing." Gard. Mag.
Thinning.—Let there be a space of
nine inches between every brace of
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fruit upon the weaker shoots, and sis
inches on the stronger. See Thinning.
Blistering of the Leaf.—This disease,
which is called by some gardeners the
Bladder Blight, and by the French la
down to succeed them ; the other late- cloque, is occasioned by more moisture
rals, fc, are tied in, and the uprightshoot being forced into the leaves from the
shortened, /, as before. roots
than they can evacuate by expira-
Now, or before, the side shoots will tion. Some gardeners, annotating upon
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have to be headed down once or even this opinion, expressed by the present
twice, so as to increase their
and regularly cover the wall.
number, writer in the Gardener's Chronicle in
The es-; June, 1845, have concluded, because
tent to which this practice is carried the blistering appears more abundantly
will depend on the height of the wall, when cold nights succeed to hot days,
and the distance of the trees from each that they occasion the disorder; but
other ; the ultimate object being to pro- they are only the proximate cause;
ducea fan form, as regular as possible, those cold nights reduce the expiratory
of permanent wood, with no young power of the leaves, whilst the roots in
wood thereon, besides what is produced a soil of unreduced temperature conalong
the spokes of the fan, on their tinue to imbibe moisture, and to propel
upper side, at about twelve inches it to the leaves with undiminished force,
apart, and the prolongation of the The blistering is, consequently, more
Bhoots.
" In the course of the winter or spring
extensive. That the force with which
the sap is propelled, is quite sufficient
of the third year, I shorten the side to rupture the vessels in the parenchyma
shoots to about ten or twelve inches, as of the leaf, is evident from Dr. Hale's
may be most convenient for wood-buds, experiment. He found the vine pro-
pelled its sap with a force equal to a
to get two principal leading shoots from i