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Short, or Spur Pruning, consists in leaving on the vines short 
spurs of one to three buds only—generally two buds. It is appli- 
cable to those vines of moderate growth, which fruit most readily 
from every joint of their fruiting wood. Although the erops are 
thereby reduced, and the bunches fewer in number, they are, in 
consequence, of larger size and more showy. 
Long Pruning consists in cutting long one or more of the pre- 
vious season’s fruiting canes. Six to ten buds are left on the canes 
or rods of these varietics, which only bear fruit on buds situated 
farther away from the crown or the arm, the lower buds being 
mostly sterile, or not regularly fertile. Should such varieties be 
pruned short, most of the fruitful buds would be removed, and the 
result would probably be a luxuriant wood and leaf growth, and a 
very small crop. 
Mixed, or Half-long Pruniny.—Between these two systems is 
an intermediate one found useful in the case of vines which have 
been pruned short, and are 
planted on rich ground, and 
run into rank growth at the 
expense of fruit production. It 
is also useful in the case of 
vines which, of the class that 
is pruned long, fail through 
exhaustion and lack of neces- 
sary vitality, to carry a full 
crop of well developed grapes. 
As the illustration shows, 
it is advisable to leave for each 
longer cane a short spur cut 
back to two buds, whose duty 
it is to provide wood for the 
following year. When that 
pruning comes the longer canes 
now illustrated are cut off, and 
a new fruiting cane, together 
with a shorter wood spur, are 
selected from the shoots issu- 
ing from the wood Spur shown Mixed or half-long pruned vine. 
in the figure. 
GRAPE VINES GROWN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
How to prune them. 
The following list supplies the names of vines which in fairly 
moist and fertile localities are better pruned short or long, as the 
ease may be. In dry districts, however, it is preferable to be 
sparing of long pruning and high training, and to adhere more 
closely to short pruning and low bush training. This insures a 
more rapid and freer circulation of the sap, and consequently better 
