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advanced stage of growth of strong ones. It 

 will also happen that some vines will make 

 too coarse or rank a growth. When this rank 

 growth takes place, the wood is coarse and 

 spongy, and the buds that are chiefly wanted 

 for future use are imperfectly developed. In 

 such cases it will be well to let 

 three canes grow instead of two, 

 which will have the effect of 

 preventing this grossness, and 

 improving the quality of the 

 wood. A vine grown with three 

 canes is shown in Fig. 26. At 

 the time of pruning, the middle 

 cane is cut entirely out at the 

 cross mark. If the trellis has 

 been put up, it is a good plan to 

 lay the canes down horizontally 

 about the first of August ; it is 

 still better to begin to bend them 

 to a horizontal position early in 

 the season. The result is a bet- 

 ter development of the buds 

 near the stock of the vine. 

 Our next labor will consist in pruning, and 

 putting down, the vines for winter; but, before 

 doing this, it becomes necessary to determine 



Fig. 26. 



