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THE GRAPE CULTURIST. 



to renew the whole vine instead of a part of it ; but a 

 few years later Mr. Bright admitted that the system 

 wound itself up at the end of the third season, as I had 

 predicted ; consequently nothing more need be said 

 about it here. 



Another of these imaginary and impossible alternate 

 renewal systems of training is shown in Fig. 63. In 

 this it is proposed to renew the upright canes growing 



FIG. 63. 



from horizontal arms, and in the same way that Mr. 

 Bright proposed to renew the canes from the main stem 

 near the roots. In brief, it is proposed to start eight or 

 more upright canes from the two arms, and at the next 

 season's pruning cut down every alternate cane at A, leav- 

 ing the other canes, B, for producing fruit from the 

 lateral new shoots, supposing the bunches would be pro- 

 duced as shown at C. But, unfortunately for the sys- 



