Show I 1 I 1 I 1 SUMMER PRUNING or OF THE TEE GRAPE VM VINE the cultivation of the grope grape is as common as that af of any plant that grows I 1 there Is scarcely any one having a garden who does not con consider sidor this attus vine as one vf f the f if he cannot raise one kind of grape he be can ber and there is no one but bui can biseto advantage the hardy I 1 I 1 a aud ad prolific native grape the isabella fur for instance ins tallee i I 1 all native grapes ye ve very luxuriant growers aror ere throwing out shoots in one season of front from twenty to thirty leet lit in length anil and producing a great mass of foliage tf 11 the almost universal practice is to cutoff cut off al ai the ishwata sho its beyond the outer oilier bunches of grapes and to thin out a great portion of the foliage in i ther other parts of the vine v me in fact to such a length do some soine operator oper b carry ahia th is practice that to see the vines v ines soon son after this summer pruning has taken place one would almost the poor vine was in the last of consumption or to re n mind one vary forcibly of a tinged t cat T i operation is is pel formed in the month or of august alini it the gapes gr pes are about the size gie of a pea the iden idea enteria entertained ined and acted s upon epolt by bv these partners fart banners ners w ie thattie growing fruit is ii robbed of its fit 1 it proportion ot tood by letting too amneh vonne wood aud and fi ange inge remain I 1 on the vine and further that it is absolutely nece necessary seary for the full development and mat maturia urit of the fruit mat abe rays of the sun aim should lit in nowise now ise be obstructed but 1 ich tha teach hunch bunch should be fully ally expired to its influx in ducci nit PU now for one uie the writer things Ili ints that if it is so nates ehi sary for the fruit to 10 be edyie ture would nut not cover cox er I 1 I 1 it so completely as ag she doe foliage he acs d es not believe belie e in this assi nature Tin titre as it i la called atit it is a practice tint that as nin advance in knowledge inov ledge and inquire into the rationality of things will he be exploited it is already becoming every ever year ear more and more u ular ar dr findley Fini llev lit in d t work published in in 1843 1643 on the sub eject gitarts the following propos pru posit itoh at if nil all the leaves which i a tree will ivill form firm we are exposed to favorable influences and receive the light or of the bril lantson lan tsun g un all the fruit whirl which mich a plum plant way may produce hilj wll ripen perfectly in a hummer that is long enough if all the leaves leaven of a tree are exposed to 10 such in in fluence till all the fruit wil advance as far towards ripen ing as the strength f summer bummer will admit ot of it auty be sur and colorless but that condition will be perfect of us its kind aid but butia if sh ah the fruit wind which a healthy tree will show is is allowed to set pud mid a al large irge of the leavels i are abstracted such euch fruit be its it jis it may tie never or ripens aih therefore if a feces ity exists for taking off a martof the leaves ofa of d tree a P put of its fruit should also be destroyed ath but although a tree may be able to ripen all the I 1 fruit winch which it shows show s yet aich fruit will neither be so large nor so sweet under tinder equal circum st a an if a part ait arit of it is removed because a tree wily only forms a certain amount of secretions find and if all secretions sec elion ure are divided among twenty jants I 1 intend often each fruit will in me die former case have but half the amount of nutrition that it woula have received lit in the latter laiter case ath the period of ii pening in fruit is is accelerated by an abundant foliage and retarded by a scarcity of fol lage age hr fir lindley further states that he considers coni iders these propositions as ab the expression of general eruths applicable in all case bait e to the vine if they are am founded as he h believes in well ascertain id ed laws then the rigorous a summer brunin g of the vine is totally wrong ils he recommends on the contrary that not only should the entire crop of leaves be but th that atthe the lateral shoots always hitherto renio removed ed should be permitted to remain because all those laterals literals late rals if allowed to grow ifould by the end of the season have con contributed buted somewhat bat to the matter floied in the stem for the nutrition of the ardit because the preparation of such matter would woud have been much more rapid and be calls 3 the ripening of the fruit dep depending on the pre presence tence of such matter matt 11 would have buys been in proportion to the ra of its it is is a rui mistake stake continues lie ti imagine that the sun shine on we uie bunches of grapes in order to ripen them nature intended no such thing when heavy blusters aters were caused to grow on slender stalks and to hans bang below the foliage of bi anches attached attai lied tot to trees roes by their strong and numerous tendrils on the co contrary at it is is evident that vynes mines naturally bear their fruit fruition fru itin in such a way as to secure it from the sun fun and man is is most un wise when he harshly interferes inter fers with this intention what is wanted is exom exposure ure of the LEAVES to the sun suit they will ivill prepare we gie nutriment latent of the grape they may wilt will feed it and nurse it and eventually rear it up unto succulence and lusciousness the 1 he same avater w anter goes on to say when ho hoever ever the branches have grown fur for mai majy v weeks and in au dmn begin to slacken in their power of strengthen ing theory says roys it I 1 11 1 1 then right to stop the shoots by bv plucking off the ends because after that beason newly fo formed tied leaves have little time to do mure more than organize themselves which must take place at the tha expense of tr matter iatter foi ming in other loaves lo cives autumn stopping of of the vine shoots is 6 therefore nut only urn ad an tadeous tage ous foi fbi the leaves w hn h remain after that operation will then direct all their enery energy to the li of the grape should the writer by calling your attention to this sub eject succeed in awakening the interest of the vine J grow ers ero in this neighborhood to the pernicious ern IOU i e effects fri ec ts of so sum in mer pruning he be will be satisfied satisfied satis fieZ and an T will conclude with a single remark if as we are told leaves are to the plant vt hat lungs are to the human body we cannot w winder ader that summer af pf pruned grape vines resemble rea enible persons in we hie last stage 0 of consumption west iest philadelphian 1 M WILTS I 1 I 1 |