80 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



double and single spurs at one and the same 

 time. The vines having been pruned, will now 

 be put down and covered for the winter. 



Fourth Year. We have now a vine with 

 one portion of the arms spurred, and another 

 portion newly added. Let us first follow out 

 the spurs with two buds. The buds e and/, in 

 Fig. 30, will each produce a cane, and each cane 

 will set two or more bunches of fruit. That 

 from e may be allowed to mature two bunches 

 of fruit ; the cane from/ should not be allowed 

 to bear any, all its strength being reserved for 

 fruit the following year. The base buds b and 

 c must be rubbed off. They would have been 

 very valuable, however, if the buds above them 

 had been accidentally lost. We could, indeed, 

 have pruned this cane just above the bud /, 

 and taken the lower cane from one of the base 

 buds ; they are not always strong enough, 

 however, to be depended upon ; but when they 

 are, it is a good practice to use them, as the spur 

 will then be a little shorter. We have reserved 

 the lower cane for next year s fruit spur, not 

 only because it is best situated for this purpose, 

 but also because the upper one will produce the 

 largest and best bunches of grapes. If the 

 upper cane were reserved for next year s fruit, 



