NOTE ON PRUNING GRAPES. 



(See page 160.) 



A very intelligent and successful cultivator of 

 hardy grapes, has furnished the following more 

 minute description of the mode adopted, than that 

 contained in the body of this work : 



" Retain, in the first place, simply one upright 

 of young growth, which in the winter should be 

 trimmed down to five or six buds. The next sea- 

 son, allow one branch to grow on each side, which 

 at the winter trimming should be laid down in a 

 horizontal direction. These arms will send upright 

 shoots, which will bear the fruit. The next sea- 

 son, the arms as well as all the uprights should be 

 cut ofT, except the upright nearest the body of the 

 vine; and so continue pruning each successive 

 year. 



" The original upright, when the root shall be 

 strong enough to bear it, may be allowed to grow 

 longer so as to have another set of arms, perhaps 

 about three feet above the others, always taking 

 care to let the arms grow from the wood of the pre- 

 vious year. 



