142 



Vineyard Culture. 



those forms, or substituting others for them. Those 

 we have recommended will answer under most of the 

 circumstances in which vineyards are placed. We 

 must now study the mode of pruning, by which these 

 forms can be given to the plants. 



We have carried the treatment of the vineyard to the 

 end of the first summer after planting. Each of the 

 young plants has from one to three rather slender 

 shoots. They must all be removed except the stoutest, 

 which is cut, leaving two eyes. At the end of this sec- 

 ond year's *growth, each plant is as represented in Fig- 

 ure 42. And now commences the pruning into shape. 



[FlG. 42.} Young Two- [FiG. 43.] Young Three- 

 year old Plant. year old Plant. 



Cup-shaped Vines of the South, without Stakes [Fig. 

 30.] The young vine being, at pruning time, as repre- 

 sented in Figure 42, the finer shoot, A, only, is reserved, 

 and cut at B, leaving two eyes ; the following year, the 

 two finest shoots obtained [Fig. 43], are also cut at A, 

 leaving two eyes j thus, at the end of the following 



