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that tlie excess of sap may not injure tlie 

 fruit. 



OF PRUNING VINE-ARBORS. 



When vines are cultivated in arbors, we 

 must expect to liave fruit later than in the 

 two preceding cases, for the grapes must be 

 sacrificed to the wood. 



In the second year, if they have been plant- 

 ed from roots, let the pruning be similar to the 

 first pruning for high vines. At the second 

 pruning, one shoot only is left, but about two 

 feet long ; care being taken to leave but two 

 eyes at the extreme end of the shoot. At the 

 third, you still leave only one shoot, but of suf- 

 ficient length to attain tlie height you intend 

 it to reach, unless that should exceed from 

 ten to twelve feet. At the fourth, you leave 

 only two shoots, and still but two eyes on each 

 shoot, being careful to cut immediately below 

 the third eye. At the fifth, you may extend 



