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AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



An example of those having one cane is shown 

 in Fig. 32. The pruning consists in cutting off 

 the cane just above the bud I. The stump of 

 the old spur may be cut at a, a. All the spurs 

 with single canes are to be pruned in this man 

 ner. A spur having two canes is shown in Fig. 

 33. This must be pruned by first cutting the 

 left-hand cane entirely away at the mark a ; the 



Fig. 83. 



right-hand cane is then cut at the mark u, 

 which leaves two buds for the two new canes. 

 The reader will observe that two simple cuts 

 complete the pruning even for a spur of two 

 canes, and will no doubt be impressed by the 

 fact, that system not only simplifies labor, but 

 divests it of much of the forbidding hardness 



