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American Grape Training. 



represent distinct operations. Pruning refers to 

 such removal of branches as shall insure better and 

 larger fruit upon the remaining portions. Train- 

 ing refers to the disposition of the different parts 

 of the vine. It is true that different methods of 

 training demand different styles of pruning, but the 

 modification in pruning is only such as shall adapt 

 it to the external shape and size of the vine, and 

 does not in any way affect the principle upon which 

 it rests. Pruning is a necessity, and, in essence, 



there is but one 

 method; training 

 is largely a conven- 

 ience, and there 

 are as many meth- 

 ods as there 

 are fan- 

 cies among 

 grape grow- 

 ers. 



All intelli- 

 gent prun- 

 ing of the 



rape rests upon the fact 

 that the fruit is borne in a 

 few clusters near the base of 

 the growing shoots of the 

 ^season, and which spring 

 from wood of last year' s 

 growth. It may be said here that a growing, leafy 



I. GRAPE SHOOT. 



