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obtained. The different varieties of muscats, the Frankenthal, 

 and others which we have noted in our list, are of this descrip- 

 tion. For these, the shoots should be left a little longer. They 

 are cut off below the third bud. This difference does not result 

 in increasing the length of the lateral branches. In fact, such 

 is the strength of these vines that three shoots are obtained 

 from each lateral branch. That from the top, which generally 

 bears the clusters, is the one preserved, then that at the base, 

 intended to undergo the next year's pruning. The intermediate 

 one is suppressed. The same-operation is each year repeated. 



DISBUDDING THE LATERAL BRANCHES OR COURSONS. When the 

 coursons are cut so as to preserve but two or three buds, it will 

 often happen, nevertheless, that a larger number will be deve- 

 loped. Only two, at the most, should be left at each point. 

 The shoot A (Fig. 96), nearest the old wood, is preserved as a 

 shoot of replacement, together with that farthest from the same 



