HOW MANY BUDS TO LEAVE 



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these shoots or new canes branches, or produces 

 laterals. We will call these new canes of 1892 

 Al, A2, A3, Bl, B2, and so on. Each of the new 

 canes bears at the base about two clusters of 

 grapes, giving a total yield of about forty clus- 

 ters. These clusters stand opposite the leaves, as 



BlO B9 B8 B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 Bl C 



/ , I J \ I 



D Al A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A? A8 A9 AlO 



/ / 



260. Diagram to illustrate pruning. 



seen in Fig. 258. In the axil of each leaf a bud 

 is formed which will produce a cane, and perhaps 

 fruit, in 1893. If each of these new canes, Al, 

 A2, etc., produces ten buds which is a moderate 

 number the vine would go into the winter of 

 1892-3 with two hundred buds for the next year's 

 growth and crop ; but these buds should be re- 

 duced to about twenty, as they were in the fall of 

 1891. That is, every year we go back again to 

 the same number of buds, and the top of the vine 



