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grow and produce canes. The vine is now supposed to be 

 three years old, and the alternate pruning commences at 

 this time, and for convenience sake we will call this the 

 first year of pruning ; every alternate upright cane is cut 

 back to one bud, and the others are cut off to four feet. 

 Fig. 94 shows a vine with the four upright canes at full 



Fig. 94. 



length, B, and the others cut back to the one bud, A. The 

 four canes are supposed to produce side spurs or fruiting 

 canes their entire length, as the one shown, c ; this they 

 can be made to do, but the upper portion of the stem will, 

 produce the best fruit in every case. At the end of the 

 second year we will have four new canes from the four 

 canes that were cut down to one bud, provided they have 

 grown, which they will sometimes fail to do, because the , 

 sap will usually flow past these single buds and into the 

 canes where there is a greater number of buds to attract 

 it. But for argument's sake we will admit that there is no 



