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American Grape Training. 



because the amount of bearing wood is small ; but 

 the crop is not large enough to satisfy most de- 

 mands. 



The Munson System. —An unique system of train- 

 ing, upon the KnifSn principle, has been devised by 

 T. V. Munson, of Denison, 

 Texas, a well-known au- 

 thority upon grapes. Two 

 posts are set in the same 

 hole, their tops diverging. 

 A wire is stretched along the 

 top of these posts and a third 

 one is hung between them 

 on cross-wires. The trunk 

 of the vine, or its head, is 

 secured to this middle lower 

 wire and the shoots lop over 

 the side wires. The growth, 

 therefore, makes a V-shaped 

 or trough-like mass of herb- 

 age. Fig. 33 is an end view 

 of this trellis, showing the 

 short wire connecting the 



, , . , , , , I , 33- MUNSON TRAINING. 



posts and which also holds the end view. 



middle trellis-wire at the point of the V. Fig. 34 is a 

 side view of the trellis. The bearing canes, two or 

 four, in number, which are left after the annual prun- 

 ing, are tied along this middle wire. The main trunk 

 forks just under the middle wire, as seen at the left 

 in fig. 34. A head is formed at this place not unlike 



