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if this was continued year after year the arm would become so long 

 as to seriously interfere with cultivation. Pruned as in Fig. 33, the 

 length of two-year-old wood left is reduced to a minimum. 



Several arms, each pruned in this way, are left every year, so that 

 a complete vine will be as in Fig. 34. The same vine after pruning 

 is represented in Fig. 35. The shoot b, growing off the old wood, has 



FIG. 34. 



FIG. 35. 



not been entirely removed, but cut back to one eye. Although 

 incapable of giving rise to fruit-bearing shoots, it will give a shoot 

 which can be employed to form a new spur at the ensuing pruning, 

 when the old arm (extending beyond it) which has become too long 



