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possible the two main canes and their buds. All severe 

 pruning and pinching' must be guarded against, here as 

 elsewhere, for fear of forcing the buds designed for next 

 seasen, into premature growth this sfes^on. This is partic- 

 ularly the case as the vines get older. Fig. 3 is intended 

 to represent the appearance of the vine at the end of the 

 second season. At the fall pruning, the two canes may- 

 be cut back to three buds each. Fig. 4 shows its ap- 

 pearance after pruning. 



THIKD YEAR. 



Six buds were left at the last pruning, from which six 

 canes can be grown during the third year. Each of these 

 canes will probably bear two or three bunches of fruit 

 each, which would give twelve to eighteen bunches to the 

 vine. There is danger of the vine being injured by over- 

 bearing, on which account the bunches should be thinned 

 to ncft more than ten or twelve to the vine. The laterals 

 may be pinched back a little more closely than during the 

 last season, and the canes may be stopped when they have 

 reached a little beyond the height of the trellis. Fig. 5 

 shows the appearance of the vine at. the end of the season. 

 The subsequent pruning consists of cutting three canes 

 down to two buds, and shortening the three remaining 

 canes to about three' feet. The \ine will then appear as 

 shown in Fig. 6. 



