FRUIT CULTURE. 



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FIG. 64 



which usually spring from the base of the 

 reg^ular shoot, should be removed and 

 the ends of the main shoots should be 

 pinched when the top wire is reached. At 

 the end of the fourth summer there will be 

 twenty canes, two from each spur. Every 

 alternate cane will be cut off as close to the 

 arm as possible, and the other cut back to a 



The High Renewal System. — In this 

 system three wires are used, the lowest 

 about eighteen inches or two feet from the 

 ground and about the same distance be- 

 tween the wires. In the second season a 

 single shoot or two shoots forming a Y 

 trunk are tied to the wire, and in the third 

 spring are tied along the wire, somewhat as 



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spur of two buds — see Fig. 64. So that, as 

 before, twenty bearing shoots will be pro- 

 vided for. 



This, briefly, is a sketch of the horizontal 

 arm and spur system. It necessitates more 

 tying than other methods of training, but 

 has many excellent features. 



in the Fuller system. At the end of the 

 third season the vine presents the appear- 

 ance of Fig. 65. Instead of leaving two 

 permanent arms and cutting back to spurs, 

 as in the Fuller method, the old arms are 

 cut away and two vigorous canes bent down. 

 Two stubs, or long spurs, are also left, from 

 which canes will be selected to form arms 



