190 THE GKAPE CULTUKIST. 



Fig. 72 shows a system of serpentine training taken 

 from Kubens' work. This plan is a very good one for 

 garden culture, as the vines are trained to stakes and 

 pruned low. The stakes are set eight inches to a foot 

 apart, and the upper ends brought together and fastened, 

 as shown. The vines are first grown with one cane, the 

 next season two, and the next with four ; hut instead ot 

 cutting them down to the two buds, they are cut off at 

 from two to four feet, and the cane twisted around the 

 stakes ; this checks the upward flow of sap, and causea 

 all the buds to push on the whole length of the cane. 

 The next season four more canes are selected from 



FIG. 73. 



among the new ones (always choosing those that are 

 strong and from near the ground), and the old canes 

 are cub away above those selected. The new ones are 

 shortened, and twisted around the stakes, as those of 

 the previous season. 



Husmann's Bow System. Mr. Husmann, in 

 his work, Grapes and Wine, advocates a bow system 

 similar to the one we have shown in Fig. 71, but he 

 trains the vines on trellises instead of stakes. This is 

 certainly an improvement, because the vines can be kept 

 more steady, and the fruit will not be so liable to injury 

 by the wind. Fig. 73 shows two vines trained with a 



