iJS PRINCITLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING 



ill the Hudson Valley, employs two wires, a stout stake 

 niiich reaches abo\e the top wire, and is driven in the 

 jKjund behind each \ine, and four vertical slats to each 

 vl le fastened a foot or so apart to the wires, but not reach- 

 ing' the ground. Some growers use narrow woven wire 

 fc icing of large mesh. The vine trunk is about a foot high. 

 Oie cane and a spur are left at pruning time, the former 

 to renew the bearing part. The new shoot from the spur 

 is tied to the stake. It is cut long enough at pruning time 



FIG. 279 

 ■yRRALES SYSTEM OF TRAINING VINES. NOTE ARRANGEMENT OF WIRES 



L'o reach the top of the stake, to which, or to the wires, 

 01' both, it ma}' be tied. Each cane is counted upon to 

 bear a dozen shoots, si.x on each side. These arc trained 

 horizontally and fastened to the slats. Summer pruning 

 is done when the shoots threaten to become too long, 

 rirowers claim that this system favors uniform distribu- 

 tion of the bearing wood and that the fruit is both well 

 supported and shaded. 



240. The overhead Caywood system (Fie. 278) has no 



,d\'antages C]\er the Munson svstem, of which it is appar- 



entlv a modification. In it the three horizontal wires, 



