120 OPEN AIR GKAPE CULTURE. 



CHAPTER YH. 



SUBSEQUENT MANAGEMENT OF THE VINES. 



THE future management of the vines will consist in 

 training up, each year, a shoot from the intermediate 

 spurs, and cutting out entirely the cane which has borne 

 the fruit. The cane which was trained up last year, will 

 this year produce a crop, while, from the spur left in 

 cutting out the former cane, is trained up a shoot for 

 the following year, and so on ad infinitum. 



As the peculiar pruning necessary is a subject of 

 vital importance to success in grape culture, we will 

 give a consecutive condensed description of it, illus- 

 trated by proper figures. 



Fig. 20. 



Fig. 20 shows a section of the horizontal arms, at 

 the end of the third season. A is the cane which has 



