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Fig. 53. 



much crowding on the trellis. In Fig. 53 I have endeavored to 

 represent in a single illustration what might have been better 

 shown in three or four. 



It will be understood without saying, that each cane is to be 

 trained up, and tied as each wire is reached. It matters not 

 what material is used for tying, whether bass-wood bark, as 

 found in furniture mats, cotton twine, or the ravellings of an 

 old stocking. None of these will affect unfavorably the size or 

 flavor of the fruit. If any of the shoots grow more freely than 

 others, pinch them back, so that all may reach the top of the 

 trellis at nearly the same time. The marks of cancellation 

 show where these upright canes are to be cut at the fall pruning, 

 leaving but two buds on each spur. Another year will give us 

 two upright canes where now there is but one ; and, as each 

 cane will set its two or three bunches, the crop of fruit, if not 

 removed, will be doubled. The subsequent treatment of this 

 vine will be quite simple. Cut back at each annual pruning to 

 two healthy buds, which will give two fruit-bearing canes to 

 each spur, cutting away the upper spur entirely ; and this may 

 be repeated indefinitely. 



In practice it will occur that small buds will push near the 

 horizontal arms, or the buds intended to grow will appear to be 

 double, and two shoots will appear where but one is wanted. 

 Let all such superfluous shoots be removed at once, and all lat- 

 eral branches kept short by frequent pinching. 



