The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Training Grapevine 
l wish to know how to handle grape¬ 
vines which we have found on property 
purchased. They are beautiful vines and 
have good leaves, but they did not bear 
fruit this year. We have pruned them 
and left the vines from 5 to G ft. long. 
We would appreciate it very much if you 
would advise us what, to do. s. b. 
New Jersey. 
The grapevine bears its fruits on shoots 
of the current season, which in turn are 
growing from canes of the previous sea¬ 
son’s development. Any wood other than 
the caues and shoots serves hut two pur¬ 
poses, it e„ support and a connection be¬ 
tween the root system and the canes, 
shoots and leaves. Pruning of the vine 
takes these facts into consideration, and 
as a result most vines are so pruned that 
there is a trunk springing directly from 
the root system, from which two or more 
arms arise and the arms in turn support 
two or more caues. or wood not older 
than one year, i. e., the fruit wood. The 
trunk may vary in length from 18 in. to 
0 ft., depending on the trellis. High trel¬ 
lises are usually associated with the 
longer trunk. With the 18-in. trunk the 
trellis usually consists of two wires held 
by posts set about 24 ft. apart. The 
lower wire is su placed that it is 20 in. 
above the ground level. The second wire 
is placed 34 in. above this. The trunk is 
brought up straight from the ground to 
near the lower wire level, and from this 
point two arms are led to the right and 
left along the lower wire and firmly tied. 
These arms, if they happen to be canes 
just grown, may carry from six to 10 
buds each. A third wire is sometimes 
used with this mode of training, placed 
midway between the two. If this be 
provided, the new growth from the arms 
is tied to this as soon as it is long 
enough to reach,, and later the new 
growth is tied to the upper wire, of course 
loosely. The fallowing season the trunk 
and arms are kept as they are. but all 
but three or four of the canes are now 
cut away. A few canes are cut back to 
spurs of two buds each. These in turn 
furnish the fruiting canes for the follow¬ 
ing year. The three or four canes that 
are retained are pruned so that they will 
reach to the upper wire, to which they 
are tied in the Spring. At rhis time the 
ideal will have been attained, namely, a 
short trunk with two arms arising from 
the head and extending along the lower 
wire to right and left, (three or four fruit 
canes coming from the arms and tied up 
obliquely to the upper wire, and from two 
to four spurs or two hud lengths on the 
arms. F. E. G. 
Trimming Vines and Shrubbery 
My grapevines were trimmed last 
Spring, but not hack to the original stock. 
Now the product is mostly leaves and 
new wood. Should I have them trimmed 
hack to the old wood for a good crop next 
year? Should shrubbery that blooms early 
lie trimmed before the Spring blossoming 
or after? a. h. 
New York. 
That satisfactory fruit be obtained next 
season fronj these vines they should not 
be pruned back again to the old wood, 
hut rather caues that have grown this 
year from the old wood, or better still, 
caues that have developed this season 
from arms or spurs on the old wood 
should he retained and tied for fruit. The 
old wood simply serves ns a support and 
connection between the root system and 
the fruit and wood buds. 
Shrubs that bloom early in the Spring 
usually produce their flowers from buds 
perfected the Fall before, hence they 
should not be pruned before they bloom 
in the Spring, unless it is desired to cur¬ 
tail the amount. Rather such as these 
should be pruned directly at the close of 
the blooming period. Lilac, Forsythia, 
Wistaria, some Spiraea. Weigela, Vibur¬ 
num and Dcutziu are such types. 
F. E. G. 
Peach Diseases 
We are constantly having questions 
about yellows and similar diseases of the 
peach. The New Jersey Experiment 
Station has issued Rulletin 856. in which 
are printed the results of recent studies 
on "peach yellows” and “little peach.” 
two diseases which have long puzzled and 
baffled peach growers. It is the most 
complete and up-to-date study of the sub¬ 
ject that has yet appeared and will surely 
help all who are interested in peach grow¬ 
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