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should also be pinched out as was then di 

 rected. The whole routine of training, indeed, 

 is the same for the first and 

 second years, the only differ 

 ence being, that during the 

 second year we have two 

 canes instead of one. 



If every thing has gone on. 

 nicely, as it should, at the 

 end of the season, when the 

 leaves have fallen, we shall 

 have a vine with two good 

 canes, like that in Fig. 25. 

 It will occasionally happen 

 that a vine here and there 

 will be weak, and not able to 

 produce two good canes. In 

 such cases, the proper course 

 is to grow only one cane the 

 second year. If, however, two 

 are grown, they will be too 

 weak to lay down for arms, 

 and they must therefore be 

 cut back to two eyes each, 

 and only two canes grown 

 the third year. Nothing will or can be gained 

 by attempting to keep weak vines up to the 



Fig. 25. 



