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No further extension is then possible, and growth must be 

 confined to the laterals, which will, in the second year, issue 

 singly from the buds along the rod. At about the third leaf 



Fig. 43 Lateral stopped at the secend leal beyand the bunch. 



on each lateral a bunch of flowers will.be produced, and at 

 the second leaf beyond the bunch the shoot should be 

 " stopped "—that is, the end should be pinched off. Laterals 



Fig. 44 Vine Pruned. 



which do not bear bunches should be treated in the same 

 ■way— be stopped at about the fifth leaf. One result of the 

 stopping will be to cause the buds in the axils of the leaves 

 to grow, and these fresh shoots (sub-laterals) should either 



