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tage of this position, there will still be a necessity of 

 checking, but to a much less extent, and to a more 



Fig. 31. 



effectual purpose, than with upright branches. By this 

 mode, the short-spur system of pruning becomes very 

 easy and practicable. 



As soon as the fruit is gathered, and the foliage killed, 

 the vines are to be fall-pruned. On all horizontal branches, 

 the bud a (fig. 31) will be a plump, fruit-bearing eye : the 

 branch may therefore be cut just above the bud a. It is 

 extremely desirable that the same bud a (fig. 30) may be 

 the fruiting-eye for upright shoots ; but, in case it is too 

 weak, the cut is made above the eye b. As all subsequent 

 years are a repetition of this third year, with the single 

 change in fall-pruning, we conclude this chapter with a 

 description of the different modes of fall-pruning. 



