480 AMERICAN GRAPE TRAINING, CONCLUDED 



ing wood is small; but the crop produced is 

 not large enough to satisfy the demands of most 

 grape growers. 



THE MCJNSON SYSTEM. An unique system of 

 training, upon the Kniffin principle, has been de- 

 vised by T. V. Munson, of Denison, Texas, a 

 well-known authority upon grapes.* Two posts 

 are set in the same hole, their tops diverging. 

 A wire is stretched along the top of these. posts, 

 and a third one is hung between them on cross- 

 wires. The trunk of the vine, or its head, is 

 secured to this middle lower wire and the shoots 

 lop over the side wires. The growth, therefore, 

 makes a V-shaped or trough -like mass of herb- 

 age. Fig. 311 is an end view of this trellis, 

 showing the short wire connecting the posts, and 

 which also holds the middle trellis -wire at the 

 point of the V. Fig. 312 is a side view of the 

 trellis. The bearing canes, two or four in num- 

 ber, which are left after the annual pruning, are 

 tied along this middle wire. The main trunk 

 forks just under the middle wire, as seen at the 

 left in Fig. 312. A head is formed at this place 

 not unlike that which characterizes the High 

 Renewal, for this system also employs renewal 

 pruning. The trellis stands six feet high. The 

 shoots stand upright at first, but soon fall down 

 and are supported by the side wires. The fol- 



*Mr. Munson described and illustrated this mode of training in 

 "American Garden," xiii. 3: (18!tL>). 



