SUBSEQUENT MANAGEMENT OF THE VINES. 



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111 Fiof. 23 is sliowii the vine at the end of the sixth 

 season. By this* time, the spurs will have become 

 hard, and if allowed to remain much longer, it will 

 be necessary to renew the whole vine, as is done in 

 the Thomeiy system (see Appendix). It will, there- 

 fore, be well to allow a bud to push from the base 

 of B, if one should show itself, as tliere most likely 



Fig. 24. 



will. In this case. Fig. 2-i will represent b as it will 

 appear at the close of the season, when the entire 

 spur must be cut off with a fine saw, at the cross line, 

 and the w^ound carefully pared smooth and coated 

 with a solution of shellac in alcohol."^ 



* " Take a quart of alcohol and dissolve it ia as much gum shellac aa 

 will nialce a liquid of the consistence of paint. Apply this to the 

 wound with a common painter's brush ; always paring the wound 

 smoothly first with a knife. The liquid becomes perfectly hard, 

 adheres closely, excludes the air perfectly, and is affected by no 

 changes of weather: while at the same time its thinness offers no 



