FRUIT CULTURE. 



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FIG. 64 



which usually spring" from the base of the 

 regular 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 



spur of two buds — see Fig. 64. So that, as in the Fuller system. At the end of the 



before, twenty bearing shoots will be pro- third season the vine presents the appear- 



vided for. ance of Fig. 65. Instead of leaving two 



This, briefly, is a sketch of the horizontal permanent arms and cutting back to spurs, 



arm and spur system. It necessitates more as in the Fuller method, the old arms are 



tying than other methods of training, but cut away and two vigorous canes bent down, 



has many excellent features. Two stubs, or long spurs, are also left, from 



which canes will be selected to form arms 



