CHAPTER VIII. 



TRAINING GUYOT GUYOT IMPROVED UPRIGHT 

 STOCK WITH ALTERNATE SPURS BOW SYS- 

 TEM THE JURA. 



System of Guyot. Inventions are sometimes 

 brilliant,, and nearly perfect at the moment of 

 leaving the brain ; but often they result from 

 the long-continued study of rude examples of 

 the principle involved, and are only made per- 

 fect by gradual improvements ; and the transi- 

 tions are so simple and natural that we wonder 

 they were not made before. The plan advo- 

 cated by Dr. Guyot seems to be a case of 

 this kind. Fig. 36 may be taken as one of 

 its original forms. It is an old one, and con- 

 sists in taking, at the beginning, a fruit cane 

 from a bud on an upright stock, and bending it 

 in a curve to the ground, where the end is se- 

 cured. This cane is renewed each year. The 

 whole arrangement is rude, the vine having no 



