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CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



Fig. 2. Treatment of average vine during the third season, 

 or of a vigorous vine during the second. 



a. Vine pruned to one cane and tied to stake. 



b. Removal of sucker (S) and lower shoots (W) in spring. 



c. Vine in summer at time of pinching. 



the top bud, or the vine will be strangled when it commences to 

 grow (see Fig. 2, a). Any kind of string or twine, sufficiently 

 strong to withstand the pressure of the growing vine in a heavy 

 wind, may be used. Binding twine, or a single strand of good 

 baling rope, is suitable. No. 16 or 17 galvanized wire is preferred 

 by some and is better than string, if care is taken to remove the 

 bottom ties the following year before they strangle the vine. 

 Wire is a little more expensive and takes a little longer to put on 

 than string, but holds the vines better and can be used for several 

 years. 



SECOND YEAR 



Summer Pruning. The treatment during the second and third 

 spring and summer is of great importance to the future welfare 

 of the vine. A little judicious care at this period will avert many 

 troubles in later years. It will be necessary to go over the vine- 

 yard four or five times to do the suckering, topping, and tying 

 which are necessary. 



The shoots starting from the vines which have been cut back 

 to two buds should be thinned to a single one. This thinning 



