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This mixed system of pruning which finds favour with some 

 is suitable for localities where both soil and climate are favourable 

 to a luxuriant growth of the vine. 



Permanent rods and long bent rods. (Bioletti). 



5. SYLVOZ CORDON. 



This method of training necessitates three wires. The stem is 

 higher than in the case of the Cazenave cordon, and is raised to the 

 middle wire ; about three feet from the ground a permanent main 

 branch is established, and along it spurs are found at intervals of 

 about 12 inches, which are pruned to one bud, producing a shoot 

 which will be bent down and tied to the first wire. This sharp 

 bending will induce the basal bud to grow more vigorously than 

 the others, which will produce fruit bearing shoots ; at pruning 

 time this bent cane is cut back to the first shoot ; this is in its 

 turn sharply curved down. 



Sylvoz Cordon. 



