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twenty inches. Some very strong vines of vig- 

 orous varieties will carry eight canes upon the two 



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27G. Horizontal arm spur training. 



arms together, and in this case the canes stand 

 about a foot apart. In the fall or winter, the 

 cane is cut away and the strongest new cane 

 which springs from its base is left for the bearing 

 wood of the following year. This new cane is 

 itself headed -in to the height of the trellis ; that 

 is, if the uppermost and lowermost wires are 

 thirty -four inches apart as they are in the Broc- 

 ton vineyards of Western New York, where a 

 modification of this system is largely used this 

 new cane is shortened -in to about thirty -six inches 

 long. On this length of cane there will be about 

 seven good buds in the common varieties. 

 A modification of this horizontal arm system is 



