Vine Priuwig. 



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and fastened to a stake ; it is only after the fourth or fifth year that 

 the crown is formed at from 10 to 12 incites above the surface of 

 the soil. This crown carries three arms with spnrs, or two or three 

 long rods without spurs, according to the variety cultivated. 



Formerly the vines in Saint-Emilion had a single trunk, sui-- 

 mounted by a single rod with or without replacement spurs. Figs. 

 48 and 49 show the most common types. 



Fig. 49 shows the disposition with a replacement spur of two 

 eyes ; it is evidently the best, as it allows more development, and 

 especially as it gives two shoots, the lowest of which can be selected 



at the following pruning season for a 

 replacement spur, the highest forming 

 the long rod. The old rod is thus 

 comj)letely done away with, and the 

 head of the plant only rises very 

 slightly every year. 



When these vines are trained with- 

 out a replacing spur, a new long rod 

 has to be taken on the old one, so 

 that, after ten or fifteen years of this 

 pruning, the trunk reaches o feet in 

 height, and sometimes more (Fig 50). 

 and it has to be cut back above the sucker which has been retained 

 the year before. We must draw attention to the fact that vines 



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Fig. 46.— Staked vines at Sauternes (after Dr. Guyot). 



trained with a certain number of long rods, accompanied* by 

 replacing spurs, not only rise very slowly every year, but, further, arc 



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Fig. 47. 

 Young vine in St. Kmilioii. 



48. FJG. 49. 



Old vines in St Emilion. 



