280 PRUNING. 



stated, if the trellis is required to be high, it may be so 

 done by first training the main stem of the vine to the 

 hight of trellis wire upon which it is to be grown. 



Another mode, termed the Guyot system, consists in 

 growing two canes upon the vine the second year, one of 

 which is cut back to two buds, and the other to two or 

 three feet, and tied down to the lower wire (see fig. 138). 

 Upon this lower or horizontal cane, the fruit is grown, 

 and the shoots, as they extend, are tied to the next wire 

 above. The two canes from the spur are grown to about 

 five feet, when they are stopped in, and all the season the 

 pinching of the side shoots, or laterals, is continued, and 



Fig. 138. VINE TRAINED ON THE GUYOT SYSTEM. 



all suckers rubbed away. This system is modified or 

 changed in the hands of some growers, by not fruiting 

 the horizontal cane the first year it is laid in, but pinching 

 off all fruit, and carrying upright canes, to be stopped at 

 the second or third wire, according to strength of vine, 

 and on them to make the fruit the following year. This 

 is again changed by some growers spurring back each al- 

 ternate cane springing from the horizontal one, and so 

 fruiting alternately. Others, again, cut back these upright 

 canes from the arm in proportion as they extend from the 

 main vine. The upright cnne nearest the main vine is thus 

 left, say two feet, and the next from it fourteen inches, and 



