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fig. 4.— Growth at end of first Fig. 6.— Growth at end of second 

 summer from setting out. summer from setting out. 



will teach him, that if the transplanted vine is 

 small or weak the first year, and makes but a few 

 feet growth, the same first year's process must be 

 cone over again the second year, until the vine 

 becomes strong enough to send up a shoot at least 

 some nine or ten feet in length, wlien the "second 

 year's" operation may be commenced upon it. — 

 Any fruit which sets should be removed, as the 

 vine is not yet strong enough to bear and support 

 a vigorous growth at the same time. 



Third Year. — The two shoots made during the 

 second year, (Fig. 5,) are now extended each way 

 horizontally, and fastened to the newly erected 

 trellis. This may be done at the end of the sec- 



ond year, or early in the spring of the third. — 

 These horizontal branches, termed arms, are to be 

 cut back at the same time, so as to leave two good 

 buds on each, so that four shoots, two on each 

 side, may spring up from them ; the same care as 

 formerly being observed to remove suckers or su- 

 pernumerary shoots and side branches, and to 

 give the autumn shortening. None of the fruit 

 bunches should be allowed to remain. The four 



Pig, 6. — Growth at end of third summer from setting out. 



shoots, as they advance in growth, should be tied 

 to the trellis, in the position that the figure re- 

 presents. 



Fourth Ye.'VR. — Two shoots or canes are suf- 

 fered to remain in their position upon the trellis, 

 merely cutting them down to three or four feet. 

 They will throw out from each bud side-shoots, 



Fig. 7. — A full grown grape vine, trained on the alternate or renewal system — 



the darli vines, the present year's bearers — the dotted ones, 



growing this year, for bearing next. 



which are the fruit-bearers, and on each of these 

 spurs one or two bunches of grapes may l)e al- 

 lowed to remain and ripen ; the ends of these 

 spurs or side-shoots being pinched off, as shown 

 at c. Fig. 1. All other bunches should be rubbed 

 off as soon as they form. The other two or outer 

 shoots should, early in the same spring, (or late 

 the previous autumn,) be laid down horizontally 

 so as to form an extension or continuation of tlie 

 arms, and at the same time be shortened to within 

 about two feet of the ends of the previous arms. 

 Two buds should be allowed to grow on eacii 

 of these horizontal portions, one of which is to 

 be trained upon the trellis for another bearing 

 branch, and the other to serve for a continuation 

 of the arms, as before, no launches being allowed 

 to grow on them. In this way, two new bearing 

 shoots are added yearly, until tlic entire space 

 inti'ndcd for tlic vine on the trellis is filled. 



We have already remarked, at the beginning 



of the previous paragraph, that the two upright 

 shoots are cut down to three or four feet. A bud 

 should be allowed to grow at their upper ends, 

 from which all bunches are to be removed, so 

 that they may serve to extend their length up- 

 wards, till the full hoiglit of the trellis is at- 

 tained. 



There are two modes of treating vines trained 

 in this way. One is what is termed spur-prnnJ7if/, 

 and the other the hin(j-canc or renewal system. 

 Tlieoretically speaking, there is but little differ- 

 ence l)etween them, but they are tiuite different 

 in practice. We have already remarked that tlie 

 launches are borne on tlic present season's shoots. 

 In spnr-pruniny, these slioots are thrown out 

 yearly from the sides of a permanent upright 

 shoot, and are cut back yearly, for new ones to 

 spring out from the buds left at their base in 

 pruning. 



In the lonfj-cane or renewal system, every alter- 



