GRAPE VINES BEARING SHOOTS AND LATERALS. 2 gg 



for the shoots to swell and extend through them, and where the extension growths fork 



Fig. 90. BEARING- SHOOT, LATERALS, SUB-LATERALS, AND FORKED GROWTH OF VINE. 



References : N, bearing- shoot : a (top), pinched four leaves beyond the selected bunch (7) ; b, stopped two 

 joints beyond the fruit ; c, tendrils or small bunches removed ; d, lateral unpinched ; e, laterals pinched ; /, joints 

 from which the laterals may be removed ; g, joints where the laterals must remain ; h, bunch with large shoulder 

 forming an uneven cluster (removed) ; i, close-set bunch (removed) ; j, bunch with good shoulders (retained). 

 0, joint of bearing-shoot ; k, lateral pinched ; dotted growth (I), sub-lateral. P, joint of bearing or other shoot : 

 m, main leaf nourishing the bud at its base (n) ; o, lateral pinched to one leaf ; p, sub-laterals, stopped to one joint 

 at + 4- ; q, portion desirable to remove. Q, forked growth ; r, leader ; s, part to cut off. 



remove the worst (Q, s, Fig. 90). If the leader becomes " blind," that is, has the 



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