CHAPTER V 
PRUNING AND MANAGEMENT 
Necessity of pruning — Pruning for effect Time to prune — Pruning 
flowering vines — Pruning foliage vines — Training vines — Staking 
young vines — Necessity of frequent attention — Keeping vines bushy 
at the base. 
PRUNING, in the growing of vines, is an opera- 
tion which may be termed a necessary evil. 
If not done by a person who thoroughly under- 
stands the work, it is better left alone entirely. 
More damage can be done in one season by 
improper pruning than can be repaired in five; 
so if your experience has been rather limited, 
proceed with care, feel your way along for a 
season or two, and the knowledge will soon come 
to you, if a little time and study are devoted to 
the work. 
The first and most important endeavour in 
pruning vines is to try to get as natural an effect 
as possible. Give the vines a thinning out once 
in the season, and then let them grow naturally. 
Don’t keep ‘‘tipping them back”’ with the shears; 
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