SHORT -PRUNING 



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to wood." Vines on poor soil, on the contrary, 

 should be planted closer together and pruned 

 shorter, or with fewer fruiting -buds, in order to 

 maintain their vigor. 



TYPE I. This is the ordinary short -pruning 

 practiced in ninety per cent of the vineyards of 

 California, and is the simplest and least expensive 

 manner of pruning the vine. It is, however, 

 suited only to vines of small growth, which pro- 



317. Epochs in the common short-pruning system. 



duce fruitful shoots from the lowest buds, and of 

 which the bunches are large enough to admit of a 

 full crop from the small number of buds which are 

 left by this method. The chief objection to this 

 method for heavily -bearing vines is that the 

 bunches are massed together in a way that favors 

 rotting of the grapes and exposes the different 

 bunches unequally to light and heat. 



