THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH YEARS. S3 



do not cut and injure the canes : they should 

 always be loose. 



These details will carry us through the sea- 

 son, up to the period of pruning. In the best 

 vines the arms may now be completed. Lay 

 down the end cane, therefore, and cut it so that 

 there shall be an interval of about a foot be- 

 tween the ends of the arms of adjoining vines. 

 If the ends of the arms should meet, there 

 would be no space for training the last fruit 

 canes. Passing along to the portion of arm 

 laid down last fall, the canes must be pruned 



to one and two eyes alternately, in the manner 

 before described. Next will come the spurs. 



