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the right, the other to the left. -If, at the end of the 

 second year, they are still small, it is better to delay 

 laying down the arms until another year, and grow two 

 upright shoots again, to get them sufficiently strong. 

 These will form the base from which to start the upright 

 shoots, as shown in figure 73. These upright growths 

 will be the permanent fruiting canes, and should be from 

 fifteen to eighteen inches apart, and pruned on what is 

 known as the spur system, as shown by figure 74. There 

 is nothing arbitrary as to the hight of these canes. It is 



Fig. 72. — VIXE WITH TWO SHOOTS. Fig. 73.— VINE WITH ASMS. 



a matter of convenience or taste whether they be trained 

 to three feet or fifteen feet. Vines thus treated may be 

 allowed to produce a few bunches the third year, and 

 by the sixth year may be fruited to the hight of ten 

 or twelve feet of cane, if desired. Not more than two 

 bunches of fruit should be allowed to each shoot. We 

 give this manner of training as one of the simplest, al- 

 though the system of training has but little to do with 

 the crop. My own Grape arbor planted twenty years 



