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young cane, which will form the spur for next year. 

 If we depend for this spur upon last year's fruiting 



Fig. 88. 



shoots, our spur will soon become so long, and our 

 vine so encumbered with old wood as to be quite 

 Tmraanageable, unless we adopt the system to be next 

 described: 



III. Here we depend for our fruit upon buds pro- 

 ceeding from the base of last year's fruiting shoot, 

 this fruiting shoot being borne upon a spur attached 

 to the main branch. This is the system of pruning 

 adopted at Thomery, and as ho good description of 

 it is be found in any American publication with 

 which we are acquainted, we give the very full and 

 lucid account by M. Dubreuil — a translation of which 

 may be found at the close of the volume. 



IV. In the short-spur, or Thomery system, the 

 fruit-bearing shoot proceeds from a spur on the main 



