PRACTICAL GARDENING 



These will furnish as much bearing wood as 

 the plant can support, but remember that the 

 fruit is borne on shoots of the present season. 



Fig. 69.— 



■Pruned grapevine trained by the 6-ann 

 renewal system. 



The object of spring pruning is to limit the 

 number of buds and to keep the plant in man- 

 ageable shape. 

 After the bunches of grapes are formed, two 

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