8o American Grape Training. 



like that which characterizes the High Renewal, for 

 this system also employs renewal pruning. The 

 trellis stands six feet high; The shoots stand up- 

 right at first, but soon fall down and are supported by 

 the side wires. The following account of this system 

 of training is written for this occasion by Mr. Munson : 



"After the vines have flowered, the bearing 

 laterals have their tips pinched off, and that is all 

 the summer pruning the vine gets, except to rub off 

 all eyes that start on the body below the crotch. 

 Two to four shoots, according to strength of vine, 

 are started from the forks or crotch and allowed to 

 bear no fruit, but are trained along over the lower cen- 

 tral wire for renewal canes. When pruning time ar- 

 rives, the entire bearing cane of the present year, with 

 all its laterals,, is cut away at a point near where the 

 young renewal shoots have started, and these shoots 

 are shortened back, according to strength of vine ; 

 some, such as Herbemont, being able at four years 

 to fill four shoots six or eight feet long with fine 

 fruit, while Delaware could not well carry over three 

 or four feet each way of one shoot only. The 

 different varieties are set at various distances apart, 

 according as they are strong or weak growers. 



' ' Thus the trellis and system of pruning are re- 

 duced to the simplest form. A few cuts to each 

 vine cover all the pruning, and a few ties complete 

 the' task. A novice can soon learn to do the work 

 well. The trunk or main stem is secured to the 

 middle lower wire, along which all bearing canes 



