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we now have twenty-four, and allowing three bunches of 

 fruit to each, it gives seventy-two bunches to each vine, and 

 this is not an over-estimate for the product 

 of a vine the fourth year after planting. 



The canes are to be treated the same, 

 as regards stopping, pinching, laterals, 

 etc., during each year of their growth. 



Fig. 45 shows a vine at the end of the 

 fourth year, but with only five spurs with 

 two canes on each, making ten bearing 

 canes on each arm. The first two canes 

 at the right hand of the center are repre- 

 sented with the three bunches of fruit 

 f! upon each. The cross lines near the base 

 of the shoots show where the vine is to 

 be pruned at the end of the fourth year. 

 The uppermost of the two canes is cut 

 entirely away, and the other is cut back 

 to two buds. 



Fig. 46 shows this same vine as it ap- 

 pears after being pruned. The vine in sub- 

 sequent years is to be pruned in the same 

 manner. Fig. 47 shows a portion of the arm 

 with the base of the upright shoot or spur, 

 as it is called. The cross line shows where 

 the upper cane is to be cut away. Each 

 year the pruning should be reversed if the 

 position of the lower bud will admit of it. 

 That is, if we cut away the left-hand cane 

 this season, as shown in the last figure, 

 then we should cut away the right-hand 

 cane the next ; in this way the spur will 

 remain nearly upright. But sometimes 

 the lower bud will be on the outside of 

 the shoot which we wish to keep for the 

 fruit spur. Fig. 48 shows a spur with the 



Fig. 46. 



