200 FRUIT-GROWING 



If one cares to make a distinction between 

 pruning and training, and I think we might do 

 this in the case of the grape, he may have a 

 wide variety of styles to choose from. You 

 might plant a vine down by the barn and by 

 careful training bring it around so that it will 

 shade the front porch, or, as they do in the 

 West, you might reduce it to a bush. There is 

 one system of training, however, that deserves 

 detailed mention because it is, to my notion, 

 the most serviceable one for the average 

 grower. It is technically called the "Knifin 

 drooping system." By this plan the young 

 vines are allowed to grow for one or two sea- 

 sons, keeping the growth confined to one or two 

 main stalks. At the end of the second season 

 the main stalks or trunks are ready to tie to 

 the wires. Two wires are used at heights of 

 three and six feet above the ground. One of 

 the trunks is headed so that it comes to the 

 lower wire and the other so that it reaches the 

 top one. From these main stems lateral 

 branches are allowed to develop so that a vine 

 is trained out along the wires on each side of 

 the main stems. If there is only one main 

 stalk it supports all four of these lateral 

 branches, two of which are allowed to grow at 

 the height of the lower wire and two at the 

 upper. 



At the end of their first year's growth these 



