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only a weak growth, it should again be cut back to two 

 eyes, and one shoot only trained up. 



Side shoots, laterals, or " thallons," as they are some- 

 times called, should be carefully watch- 

 ed, and as soon as a leaf has formed 

 one inch in diameter the shoot should 

 be pinched off just beyond it, with 

 thumb and finger. In a short time this 

 leaf will have become of full size, and 

 the bud at its base have matured and 

 again pushed forth a new shoot, which 

 should be stopped as at first. This 

 sometimes occurs two, three, or more 

 times in a season. No suckers from. 

 below the main canes should be per- 

 mitted to grow. In September these 

 canes are to be stopped as before, and 

 no fruit allowed. 



Third Year. We have now two 

 strong canes with which we commence 

 the framework of the vine. Each of 

 these is cut back at the winter pruning 

 to within two or three feet, not buds, of 

 its base, bent in the form of a bow, and 

 tied to the lower wire of the trellis. 

 After the buds have started in the 

 spring, and made a growth of four to 

 six inches, these canes should be loosen- 

 ed and laid in, as in fig. 136, and fast- 

 ened to the lower horizontal bar of 

 the trellis. The bud on the end of 

 each at c, will produce a shoot to con- 

 tinue the prolongment in a horizontal pjg i35._ VINE AT THE 

 direction, and a bud (a) on the upper BND OF THE FIRST TEAK. 

 side of each will produce a shoot to be trained to one of 

 the upright bars the first one on its division, or half of 



