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Am&iHtan' Grape 1 raining. 



heavily. It must be" remembered, howfever, that 

 both these horizontal canes^ with all their mass of 



herbage, are to be cut away in 

 the fall or winter of the third 

 year. Some provision must have 

 been made, therefore, for the top 

 for the fottrth year. It will be 

 recalled that in discussing the re- 

 newal jMTuning (page 1-6, fig. 5), it 

 was found that two or more 

 shoots are allovved to grow each 

 year to form the basis of the top 

 the following year. , In fig. 12 

 three or four such shoots can be 

 seen springing from' the Y'Shaped 

 portion in the center of the vine. 

 These shoots or canes are to be 

 bent down to the lowest wire next 

 spring, and the bearing shoots will 

 arise from them. This process 

 will be seen at a glance from 

 figs. 13, 14 aiid 15. The first 

 shows i a full grown old vine, 

 trained on three wires. Fig. 14 

 shows the same vine when pruned. 

 Two long canes, with six or eight buds each, are 



II. MAKING THE 

 T-HEAD. 



