BULLETIN 193. 



PRUNING THE SULTANINA. 



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abundance of fruit wood (F, F), but it is so near the top of the stake 

 that if fruit canes are left there is nothing to which to tie them. If this 

 fruit wood is left and pruned short we get a vine like that shown in 

 Fig. 8, which is worse than an ordinary short-pruned vine. 



This condition may be avoided for a year or two if, besides the fruit 



FIG. 



Last stage of a Sultanina vine which has been pruned long and the 

 canes tied up vertically. 



canes (C, C), we leave also some short spurs of one or two buds on the- 

 main stump. The canes from these spurs will consist of fruit wood 

 and they may be used for fruit canes the following year. Unfortu- 

 nately these spurs are so shaded by the foliage on the fruit canes that 

 they do not always produce vigorous wood, and finally they fail to grow 

 at all. 



