GRAPE-VINE. 



'pruning^ operations very different from each other. 

 What is commonly styled the Spur system of training 

 and 2)runi'}ig is managed as follows : Allow each stem 

 to extend the whole height of the house, and if the 

 first year it does not attain the size of three inches 

 round, it is to be cut back and .allowed another year's 

 growth. Should it attain more than three inches in 

 circumference, it must be regarded as too strong, and 

 cut down to within about four feet of the old wood. 

 Young spurs will put out to bear fruit, and one bunch 

 may be taken from each, the growth of each spur being 

 stopped two eyes above the bunches. These spurs are 

 cut back at each winter pruning, so as leave two or 

 three eyes on each. These again sending out spurs, 

 one bunch is to be taken from each, and so continue 

 from year to year. Never take more than one bunch 

 from a single eye. 



Hoare, in his excellent treatise upon the vine, has 

 reduced to a scale its bearing capacities at certain 

 stages of its growth. The greatest quantity of grapes 

 which any vine can mature, in proportion to the cir- 

 cumference of its stem or base measured three inches 

 above the ground, is as follows : — 

 -When 3 inches in circumference 5 lbs. 



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