CHAPTER V 
PruNING AND MaNAGEMENT 
Necessity of pruning — Pruning for effect — Time to prune — Pruning 
flowering vines — Pruning foliage vines — Training vines — Staking 
young vines — Necessity of frequent attention — Keeping vines bushy 
at the base. 
PRUNING, in the growing of vines, is an opera- 
tion which may be termed a necessary evil. 
If not done by a person who thoroughly under- 
stands the work, it is better left alone entirely. 
More damage can be done in one season by 
improper pruning than can be repaired in five; 
so if your experience has been rather limited, 
proceed with care, feel your way along for a 
season or two, and the knowledge will soon come 
to you, if a little time and study are devoted to 
the work. : 
The first and most important endeavour in 
pruning vines is to try to get as natural an effect 
as possible. Give the vines a thinning out once 
in the season, and then let them grow naturally. 
Don’t keep “tipping them back” with the shears; 
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