Pruning the Vine. 



shoots on the same fruit-stem, from the top to the base, 

 is more marked in some varieties than in others. It is 

 in the most vigorous varieties that this decrease in fruit- 

 fulness is most marked, and it is for this reason that 

 those varieties must be pruned longer than the others, 

 as regards fruitfulness. 



4th. Each plant can only nourish, properly, a certain 

 number of bunches, proportionate to its vigor. If this 

 number is exceeded, the quality of the wine suffers very 

 materially. 



5th, and Lastly. It will be well to adopt such a mode 

 of pruning the fruit-stems, that each^eaiv the shoots 



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Pruning Fruit-Stems. 



nearest the old wood (A, Fig. 54), may be reserved for 

 a new fruit-stem. By this means, it will be easier to 

 preserve the shape of the vine to a size proportionate 

 to the soil from which it derives its nourishment ; oth- 



