330 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING 



forming squares. Generally only one trunk is grown 

 beside and to the top of each post, to which it may be 

 fastened at various points. At the top it is pinched to 

 develop side shoots for covering the arbor. The shoots 

 are trained out in various directions so as to distribute 

 them evenly over the wires. 



243. The muscadine grapes, popular in southern gar- 

 dens, but only recently becoming known commercially. 



FIG. 281— CROSS-WIRE SYSTEM SHOWING PRUNED VINE 



are rarely pruned because pruning is supposed to injure 

 the vines. This is an error; for if pruned at the proper 

 season — October or November — they will not be hurt, 



