THE OHIO SYSTEM. 



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Fig. 65. 



stem, the shoots a h are cut clean out, and c is cut down to one 

 eye, which should be as near the old wood as possible, and if on 

 it, so much the better. During the second year the vines are 

 trccated nearly the same as the cuttings were during the first 

 year, and the spring pruning is also the same. 



During the third summer, three or four shoots are trained up 

 iind carefully tied to stakes ; laterals are pinched out and tho 

 shoots stopped in September. 



During the fourth year, the vines are allowed to bear on the 

 , spurs produced by cutting back the shoots of the previous 

 season to six or eight inches. These spurs of course throw up 

 fruit-bearing canes, which during the fifth season are tied to 

 stakes in bows, so as produce a crop of grapes, and at the winter 

 pruning the bows are cut away, their place being filled next 

 season by a fresh cane trained up for the purpose du'-ing the pre- 

 ceding summer. 



