SUMMER TRIMMING. 79 



not to be trimmed -will stand immediately upon or near 

 the stake. See Fig. 22. 



The shoots, of which one or two are intended to be 

 retained for bearing wood and other purposes, for the 

 seasons following, being marked 1, 2, and 3, a shoot 

 will also generally be retained upon each spur, and is 

 marked a. Great care must be had not to retain for 

 these purposes the shoots growing out of the buds 

 marked B ; being so near those marked No. 1 and 2, 

 they are apt to be mistaken for them. How many 

 shoots to retain cannot be stated definitely — that de- 

 pends upon the relative strength, age, and vigor of 

 each vine. For a vigorous vine three shoots may well 

 be left — ^that is, two upon each of the bows of those 

 marked 1, 2, and 3, and one upon each spur as marked 

 a ; and also trim one, whenever this can be done, out 

 of the "Head" marked C, the object of the latter being 

 to be prepared for renovating the "thighs." For an 

 old, decrepit, or sickly vine, two or three new shoots 

 would be enough. A good vine-dresser knows that 

 there must be no attempt to have the foliage dispropor- 

 tionate to the stem and roots below the ground. 



Which shoots to trim may be gathered from the pre- 

 ceding remarks. They are marked 5 and upwards. 

 Should there be grapes upon any of them, then they 

 should be so pinched off as to leave one leaf at least, if 

 not two, beyond the outer grape. In fact, no shoot 



