46 THE AMERICAN VINE-DRESSER'S GUIDE. 



your branches by leaving three shoots, each 

 about two feet in length, with still two eyes at 

 the extreme ends. At the sixth, of the two eyes 

 left before on each shoot, and which have now 

 grown into shoots themselves, you cut off one 

 close under the third eye ; and leave the other 

 two feet long, with but two eyes at the extreme 

 end of each. The shoot left short you will 

 prune each year like the low vines; and 

 every year, on the shoot left long, you keep 

 one of the new shoots short, leaving the other 

 two feet in length, until your arbor has 

 reached the state you propose. 



Bear in mind that the taking off of the 

 useless branches, the uncovering and re-cover- 

 ing the roots, are, perhaps, more indispensa- 

 ble to the vine in arbors than to low vines. 



"What I have said of vine-arbors is also 

 applicable to vines trained against walls or in 



