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all the others are rubbed off. If there is room for two stems then 

 two may be allowed to develop. The following year the Vine may 

 be left 3 feet long ; each year 3 feet of new stem is left until the 

 allotted space is filled. Meantime side growths will form. Some 

 of the best, at intervals of 15 to 18 inches apart, are allowed to grow ; 

 others are rubbed off in spring when quite small. Those shoots left 

 are called laterals and will form spurs. 



Pruning Lateral Shoots. 



Q. How are lateral shoots or spurs pruned I Ljrwrant, Windsor. 



A. The pruning is simplicity itself. Each year (in January) the 

 previous summer's growth is cut back to within two buds of the 

 base, thus practically all the previous year's growth is cut away. 

 When these two buds start into growth in spring only one is retained; 

 if neither contains a bunch then the weaker is rubbed off ; if one 



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contains a bunch and the other does not, naturally the former is 

 retained. The embryo bunch can be distinguished when the shoot 

 is only an inch long. 



