The Grape 



wood indicates the vine's ability to produce 

 a larger crop of fruit." 



All of which means, when you come to sum 

 it up, that an overloaded vine will make but 

 poor growth of wood each season, and that the 

 appearance of a vine at the end of the season 

 will tell you whether you have asked too much 

 or too little of it. 



This simplifies matters very much for the 

 amateur, for it gives him something definite to 

 base an opinion on. Let him discard theories, 

 and plant his grape-vines, treat them in what 

 he considers a common-sense way, and wait 

 for results, watching them carefully, and he 

 will soon gain the facts from his experience 

 which will enable him to make a success of his 

 undertaking. Anybody can grow this delicious 

 fruit who sets about it, and grow it well, too, 

 and that without being a "scientific" grape- 

 culturist. 



My advice as to pruning is this: Watch the 

 vines carefully as they make their annual 

 growth, and rub off all but three or four of the 

 strongest canes that start. Allow no others 

 to grow during the season. This throws the 

 strength of the plant into a few branches. In 



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