40 THE GRAPE. 



soil be the better for permitting the three buds here shown 

 to grow, the Delaware, Rebecca, Mottled, Elsinborough 

 and some others, will be better to have only two buds per- 

 mitted to grow. As the buds start in spring there will be 

 more or less of sucker sprouts start from the root, and 

 the dormant bud at base of the main bud will often start ; 

 the vine must then be watched, and as soon as a shoot 

 appears, other than the two or three strong ones from the 

 regular buds, they should be at once rubbed out, and 

 thenceforward, during the summer, rub or prune no more ; 

 let all grow ; for although old time cultivators will tell you 

 to cut or pull away the laterals, we tell you that the later- 

 als serve to add to the size and vigor of the lower part of 

 the cane, and the buds thereon, and every additional 

 ripened leaf adds to the volume and strength of the root 

 for the coming year's aid. 



Supposing your vine to have been a Delaware or Re- 

 becca, or any of that class of short jointed, comparatively 

 slow growers, it will, at the close of the second season, 

 present much the appearance of Fig. 2 ; but if it has been 

 a Concord, Hartford, Wilder, etc., then you must add a 

 third cane to make our figure exhibit what your vine 

 should be in September of the year. 



And now your season for pruning has again come, and 

 by its pruning you hope for fruit the coming season. 

 Your Concord, Hartford, or other strong growing kinds, 

 having been grown to three strong canes, if your posts 

 and wires are put up, and it is pruned and tied, it will, or 

 should, look very much like Fig. 3, on page 44. 



Each of these canes has three buds, and the two upper 



