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mit, the cane upon the right is carried up, and the 

 vine is ready to produce fruit. This is borne upon 

 the laterals which start from the buds on these 

 canes, and which are pinched off after forming two 

 leaves beyond the bunch of grapes. At the winter 

 pruning these laterals are cut back to the lowest 

 bud, which is to cast that for the next year. 



Simple Thomeri/. This, although not so easily 

 covered as the preceding, is well 

 for cold or extreme latitudes^ as it 

 is for all others. The permanent 

 arms, being so near the surface of 

 the ground, are not very liable to 

 suffer from extremes. For if the 

 temperature becomes suddenly cold 

 after extreme heat, to such a degree 

 as would be ruinous to canes higher 

 from the ground, yet these receive 

 radiation of heat from the earth, 

 which enables them to cool off more 

 gradually. The first season the 

 vine is trained to one cane, and at 

 winter pruning is cut back to two 

 eyes ; each of these will make a new 

 cane, which is cut the next winter 

 to about three feet, or rather pruned 

 to the same number of sound eyes. 

 These canes are bent down, and 

 make the permanent arms, from which the canes 



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