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THE CULTURE OF THE GEAPE. 



Tliis is, unquestionably, the best system of pruning, 

 on the long cane principle, and it is explained here by a 

 representation of the vine in the successive years. 



a, is the vine after planting. 



b, is tlie vi-ie cut back, at the close of the first year of growth. 



c, is the vine cut back, at the close of the second year. 



d, is the vine as it will be, after pruning, at the end of the third year. 



e, shows the vine with the first bearing cane cut out, and pruned for 

 fruiting the next year; every successive year, the long shoot must be out 

 out, and its place supplied, as above directed. 



Another system, practised in this country, is, to train 

 a new cane, every year, the whole length of the rafter, 

 to fruit the successive season ; the cane, which bore the 

 fruit, being pruned back to one eje, in November. This 

 is more simple than the former plan ; but an objection 

 to this, and all other long cane pruning and training is, 

 that it requires the vine to produce and ripen a large 

 crop of fruit, and a great extent of wood also, every 

 year. The result of this plan would be, that, in a fev 



