HARDY GRAPES. 



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from extending too far. In tlie autumn of this year, after 

 the [leaves have fallen, the vine will have the appearance shown 

 in Figure 44. 



In the spring of the fourth year, each of these upright canes 

 may he cut hack to two eyes, and two canes he allowed to grow. 

 These may now each hear two or three bunches of grapes, accord- 

 ing to the otrength of the vine, and he treated ia aU respects 

 as the upright canes were during the last summer. In the 

 autumn of the fourth year the vine will have the appearance 

 shown in Figure 45. 



Pig. 45. 



In the spring of the fifth and all subsequent years the upper 

 of the two canes should be cut away entirely, and the lower cane 

 shortened in to two eyes, which may be allowed to grow and 

 form two canes as before, and each cane be allowed to bear three 

 clusters of grapes. This completes the system, and the further 

 pruning consists in annually cutting off the upper one of the two 

 canes and shortening the lower cane to two eyes. 



The HORIZONTAL MODE of training the vine, or, as it is sometimes 

 called, the arbor system, consists in training the vine at fijst 

 upright to the desired height, and then allowing it to run hori- 

 zontally. There is no doubt this conforms more nearly to the 

 natural habit of the vine, which grows perpendicularly for a 



