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Vineyard Culture. 



[Fig. 51], The shoots growing from the old wood, as 

 sometimes happens, are invariably barren [Fig. 52]. 



[FiG. 52.] Vine-Shoot on the old Wood. 

 3d. On a real fruit-stem [FiG. 53] the shoots are 

 generally more fruitful as they grow further from the 

 old wood ; thus, the shoots growing out of the eyes A, 



[Fio. 53.] [Fie. 54.] [Fie. 55.] 



Pruning Fruit- Stems. 



will be less productive than those of the eyes B, and 

 those of the eyes C, will bear more than those of the 

 eyes B. 



However, the decrease in the fruitfulness of the 



