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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING 



seen, therefore, that it is not necessary to leave a large 

 number of buds upon a vine after pruning to meet the 

 requirements of a good crop of fruit. The fruit will, 

 moreover, be of much better quality than that produced 

 by an unpruned and neglected vine (74). 



225. The Munson system. A second method of man- 

 agement, which possesses much merit, is the Munson 

 system of training, so called from its originator, the late 



FIG. 272- -MUNSON SYSTEM OF TRAINING VINE UNPRUNED 



T. V. Munson, the grape specialist of Texas. In this 

 system, as practiced by the originator, the trellis is made 

 by placing two light posts or stakes in each hole along 

 the row, their tops separated 18 to 24 inches, like the two 

 sides of the letter V, and standing 6 feet high. A wire is 

 stretched lengthwise along the tops of these posts and 

 a third wire about a foot lower upon cross wires midway 

 between them. 



In our own practice essentially the same arrangement 

 of wires is secured by the use of a single post in each 

 hole with a 2-foot piece of 2 x 4-inch joist spiked firmly 



