46 Pruning. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Pruning. 
rals of the young canes of last summer's growth 
provided they are strong enough, which they 
will be if they have been pinched acco to 
our directions ; the fruit-buds at chs base of the 
principal canes are seldom well-developed, and 
will not bring much fruit. We therefore grow 
the fruit on the laterals, which can beshortened 
in to from two to six eyes each, gins apt = 
their strength. All these rank g 
have plenty to do—that is, they should “be 
pruned long, much longer than is generally 
done. Should too many bunches appear, you 
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ean easily reduce t p 
ing. Allthe Cordifolia*, and some of the Esti- 
valis class (Cynthiana and Norton’s Virginia), 
produce best on spurs on two or three year old 
canes » they will also bear better on spurs on 
laterals than on main canes, but do not pro- 
duce their best fruit until they can be ‘‘spurred 
in” on old arms. For this purpose, select for 
your spurs strong, well-ripened shoots; cut 
them back two to three eyes each, and cut out 
all the small and im 
the strength of your vine, aud always bear 
in mind that you can reduce the number of 
bunches when summer-pruning. 
“A third class produces oe and abund- 
antly from the main canes. i i 
the varieties which do not pasa! very stron z, the 
La , and all of more or less 
as good as any for them. 
this class than both of the others, and they 
should never be allowed to bear too much,”’ 
From the above 1t will be seen that — . ptoceee 
methods apply to different varieties, an 
may add that they ought also to be here 
toother circumstances. Those, there- 
oe fore, who have recommended various and con- 
each | have ets enemies be- 
correct 
how vara the other system is best appli- | 
g. ¥ Tt. s.¢ 
Maty Goce 
and, when ae | 
Sa pr, on Fy &e. 
to the trellis in spring, to present the appear- 
ance as shown in Fig. 71. 
a 
(Fig. 71.) 
cultivator should be used for the destruction 
of weeds and keeping the surface-soil mellow. 
_ The hoe will be needed tokill the weeds imme-- 
diately around the plants, as before. At the 
last plowing in the preceding fall the furrow- 
slice should have been thrown TOWARDS the 
vines, thus aitording Pepisebeinney, ‘Peotection - 
oo of the canes, - Top dress- 
f lime, ashes, rsede &e., may, if 
pier be best applied at the same time. In 
the following spring, therefore, the first plow- 
ing should be reversed, and the ground will be 
level. 
Plowing in the vineyard should never be so 
deep as to injure the roots of the vines. 
If you train your vines on the horizontal sys- 
tem, the upright canes, which were pruned 
arms, only the strongest one should beallowed 
to grow, and all others rubbed off. Instead of 
ten to twelve upright — you will have 
twenty to twenty-four, and, allo three: 
bunches toeach, you may get seventy bunches 
to every vine the fourt planti 
the strongest shoots ot the pre- 
_ Yious years’ growth. _ The only proper system 
of pruning 
