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PRINCIPLES AND PRA( TICK OF PRUNING 



ibi the Hudson Valley, employs two wires, a stout stake 

 which reaches above the top wire, and is driven in the 

 ground behind each vine, and four vertical slats to each 

 vl ne fastened a foot or so apart to the wires, but not reach- 

 ing" the ground. Some growers use narrow woven wire 

 fencing of large mesh. The vine trunk is about a foot high. 

 One cane and a spur are left at pruning time, the former 

 to renew the bearing part. The new shoot from the spur 

 i-i tied to the stake. It is cut long enough at pruning time 



FIG. 279 

 PJRRALES SYSTEM OF TRAINING VINES. NOTE ARRANGEMENT OF WIRES 



t'O reach the top of the stake, to which, or to the wires, 

 or both, it may be tied. Each cane is counted upon to 

 bear a dozen shoots, six on each side. These are trained 

 horizontally and fastened to the slats. Summer pruning 

 is done when the shoots threaten to become too long. 

 Growers claim that this system favors uniform distribu- 

 tion of the bearing wood and that the fruit is both well 

 supported and shaded. 



240. The overhead Caywood system (Fig. 278) has no 

 .dvantagcs over the Munson system, of which it is appar- 

 ently a modification. In it the three horizontal wires. 



