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Fig. 2463. 

 The Fuller System. 



are renewed by replacing' with a strong- 

 young- branch from a bud near their base. 

 This is the quickest and least expensive 

 method, but the objection to it is that in 

 time a vineyard so pruned is unsig-htly 

 with old wood which cannot be laid down 

 for winter protection. 



THE FULLER SYSTEM 



THIS is a modification of the old coun- 

 try Renewal method, which called for 

 the cutting back each year of every alter- 

 nate upright to within two or three buds of 

 the main arms ; while this method requires 

 the cutting back every upright annually. 

 The old method is best for such varieties as 

 Rogers, which are not over vigorous, but 

 the Renewal is better adapted to our more 

 vigorous growers. 



The method is well explained by the ac- 

 companying engravings, showing a vine 

 allowed to produce one upright branch the 

 first year, Fig. 2461, two uprights the se- 

 cond year. Fig. 2462, and the third year 

 these two trained horizontally on the bot- 

 tom wire, to form permanent arms from 

 which young uprights are grown each sum- 

 mer. Every fall, these should be cut back 

 to within one or two buds of the main arm, 

 in the case of Worden, Concord or Niagara, 



and there will still be enough wood left to 

 produce as much fruit as the vine ought to 

 bear. 



SUMMER PRUNING THE GRAPE 



IS too little observed among Canadian 

 fruit growers. The rush of work is 

 usually so great, and the workmen em- 

 ployed so few, that the vines are too often 

 allowed to have their own way, and grow 

 in the most rampant fashion, giving little 

 opportunity for the fruit to reach it best 

 development, and wasting the energy of the 

 vine in producing and maturing a mass of 

 useless wood. The surplus shoots should 

 be rubbed off with the thumb and finger as 

 soon as they appear, and the canes should 

 be pinched back four or five joints beyond 

 the last bunch of grapes, so that the 

 strength of the vine may be forced into the 

 fruit. 



FRUIT TALK AT ST. CATHARINES FAIR 



THE smaller fairs seem to be taking a 

 new lease of life, through the exer- 

 tions of Secretary Creelman and the local 

 officials. At St. Catharines on the 17th 

 we found a magnificent display of fruit, 

 and the fruit men gathered at the door 

 of the main building to listen to In- 



