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When the vme is planted, it should be cut down 

 so as to leave one eye to grow. Some accident 

 might destroy this, however, and two or three should 

 therefore be left at the fall pruning, when those 

 which are superfluous should be destroyed. The 

 first season this bud should throw a straight shoot of 

 several feet. During November it should be cut 

 back to five eyes ; if it is delayed until spring, the 

 wound will bleed, weakening the vine, and causing 

 the shoots to start with less vigor. This stump will 

 throw five branches, which are spread out on the 

 trellis like a fan. At the next fall pruning, these 

 arms are shortened, leaving two eyes upon each, 

 and the next summer the vine possesses ten arms. 

 The vine has now attained it stature. At the next 

 fall pruning, beginning at the bottom, the first limb 

 is cut within tw^o eyes, so as to secure one, and the 

 next to nine, and so on alternating two eyes and 

 nine. The next summer, the five arms which have 

 nine buds will fruit from each, and the lateral 

 should be pinched within two joints of the bunch 

 of fruit ; the other five limbs throw five strong 

 shoots, for fruiting the following season. At the 

 next fall pruning the bearing arm or branch should 

 be cut back to grow, while the other is left with nine 

 eyes to fruit ; thus each arm fruits on alternate years. 



Sir Humphrey Davy, in his Notes and Observations 

 on the Ionian Islands, says that the pruning of the 

 vine is such as would be pronounced severe even in 



