114 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



mediate vines, X, are grown with naked stocks 

 up to the point A, and thence spurred to the 

 top of the trellis. In this way any amount of 

 surface may be covered. 



The Bow System. This system, as practiced 

 at the West, was introduced by German emi 

 grants, and in Ohio and other places is more 

 or less common, but seems now to be giving 

 way to other and better plans. Figs. 58, 59, 

 60 will make it quite plain to the reader. The 

 first year one good cane is grown, which is cut 

 down to the two lowest buds, from which two 

 canes are grown the following year. One of 

 these canes is pruned to a spur with three 

 buds, and the other shortened to about two 

 feet, as shown by the cross marks in Fig. 58. 

 The cane is bent and tied to a stake as seen in 

 Fig. 59. Usually, this cane is allowed to fruit 

 its whole length. From the spur three canes 

 are taken, which are also allowed to fruit. 

 The appearance of the vine at this time is 

 shown in Fig. 60. The pruning consists in 

 cutting away the bow or bent cane. There 

 are three upright canes left, the lowest of 

 which should be cut to a spur of three buds, 

 to produce three new canes. Of the two re 

 maining canes, one is cut off, and the other bent 



