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GRAPE CULTURE AND 



deuse, Carignan, Meunier r Tannat, Pred de Perdrix, Petit 

 Bouschet, Rulander (American). 



For these I would recommend five foot stakes, We com- 

 mence the third year, by leaving one cane, a foot to eighteen 

 inches long, (15 will be about a medium), pruning and tying 

 precisely as for stool pruning. We leave three canes or shoots 

 to grow from the three upper buds, which will give us some- 

 thing like a goblet shape to commence with, and summer 

 prune as in stool pruning, not quite so short however, leaving 

 at least eighteen inches of the young growth. Near winter 

 or spring we cut the three canes obtained to about 15 to 18 

 inches, and tie to the stake as in (Fig. 20), making the upper 

 tie with wire, the lower, which is only drawn around to keep 

 the canes from spreading, with Phormium,'Dracena leaves or 

 or twine. The shoots from these are pinched as in stool 

 pruning, but one shoot from the base of each cane, left un- 

 pinched, to develop fully ; as from it we expect our cane for 

 next season's bearing. These three canes will each bear some 

 fruit, if strong enough, but should not be overloaded. Here 



FIG. 20. 



FIG. 21. 



