458 AMERICAN GRAPE TRAINING, CONCLUDED 



It will be observed that the right-hand cane is 

 two -thirds of it old wood, to be all cut away at 

 the next pruning. The old canes that bore a 

 heavy crop of fruit have been pruned away, all 

 but the stumps of the right-hand cane. Three or 

 more buds at the end of the cane, as the vine may 

 be strong or weak, are to be left to bear fruit, the 

 others to be rubbed off, except enough to form 

 new canes near the ground, to renew next year's 

 bearing canes. * * * The original Kelly's 

 Island System was one long cane or arm, with 

 spurs for next year's canes at the surface of the 

 soil, but it was found objectionable because it is 

 always difficult to get the fruit -spurs to grow 

 uniform upon long canes, the first and the last 

 canes growing too strong at the expense of the 

 center canes." 



A mongrel mode of training is reported in 

 Fig. 292. The diagram is described* as "a well- 

 managed six -year -old vine ; heavier parts show 

 old wood ; light parts, this year's wood." It is 

 seen to be a combination of High Renewal (re- 

 newal cane at A), horizontal arm and fan- 

 training. 



THE DROOPING SYSTEMS 



In 1845 William T. Cornell planted a vine- 

 yard in the Hudson River Valley. A neighbor, 



*By "a well-known horticulturist" in Pop. Gartl. iii. 278. 



