CHAPTER VIII. 



TRAINING GUYOT GUYOT IMPROVED UPRIGHT 



STOCK WITH ALTERNATE SPURS BOW SYS 

 TEM THE JURA. 



System of Guyot. Inventions are sometimes 

 brilliant, and nearly perfect at the moment of 

 leaving the brain ; but often they result from 

 the long-continued study of rude examples of 

 the principle involved, and are only made per 

 fect by gradual improvements ; and the transi 

 tions are so simple and natural that we wonder 

 they were not made before. The plan advo 

 cated by Dr. Guyot seems to be a case of 

 this kind. Fig. 36 may be taken as one of 

 its original forms. It is an old one, and con 

 sists in taking, at the beginning, a fruit cane 

 from a bud on an upright stock, and bending it 

 in a curve to the ground, where the end is se 

 cured. This cane is renewed each year. The 

 whole arrangement is rude, the vine having no 



