42 THE GRAPE. 



buds on each cane are to produce fruit, while the cane on 

 the lower bud is to have whatever fruit it will set rubbed 

 away, and the canes trained for fruiting another year. 



On vines say those of five or more years old, and 

 with such varieties as Concord, etc. these canes should 

 be much longer, and have, when pruned in autumn, from 

 eight to ten buds each, and then in spring, each alternate 

 bud should be rubbed out, just before the blossoming of 

 the vine. Fig. 4 is a representative of an irregular grown 



FIG. 4. 



vine of the past or second year, and now cut to two canes 

 of four buds each, with a spur cane at the base of one of 

 them, from which to grow canes for the coming or suc- 

 ceeding year. This, with its four buds to a cane, it is 

 supposed should have the lower and the third buds rub- 



