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Fourth Vear.—The fourth summer most vines will put forth 
a number of canes and bear a ‘good crop of fruit, though some 
varieties are later in bearing. The same treatment is given the 
vine as during the preceding summer, and at the following 
winter pruning each branch is allowed to retain two spurs of 
two or three buds each, according to the strength of the vines, 
as aforesaid. Thus the vine which was left as in Fig. 7 at the 
third pruning becomes the form shown in Fig. 8 at the fourth 
winter pruning. 
Subsequent Pruning.—After the fourth year the pruning 
proceeds upon the same plan, the number of branches or spurs 
being increased as the vigor of the vine seems to warrant, until 
A Stump-pruned Vine. 
the trunk shows the goblet form, as shown in Figs. 9 and Io. 
From year to year the number of buds left on the spurs depends 
upon the ability of the vine to produce the fruit and make a 
healthy growth. 
Stump Pruning—Short or spur pruning is also followed 
without systematic effort to build up a symmetrical trunk, 
branching in goblet shape, as has been described. In such 
practise the vine is usually headed as soon as a strong cane is 
thrown out about as high as the top of the trunk is intended to 
be, and year after year shoots are selected from those emerging 
near the top of the stump. Irregularly-branching heads are 
thus formed, continually crowding upward, and are kept within 
bounds much less easily than low-heading branches. The en-. 
