NOTE ON PRUNING 
We speak of spur pruning, half-long pruning, and long pruning.e Spur pruning means just that: 
year after year leave no more than four or five 2-bud spurs on a short trunk cutting away 
everything else. It is prescribed for vines which have only moderate vigor or would over- 
produce if pruned more generously. Such varieties should be planted no more than six feet 
apart in the row. Half-long pruning means cutting back to two bearing canes of not more than 
6 buds each, plus two or three 2-bud spurs. I+ is for intermediate vines which should be 
planted six or seven feet apart in the rowe Long pruning means leaving, two, three or even 
four bearing canes of 8 to 12 buds, plus an equivalent number of spurse It is prescribed 
for (a) ultra-vigorous varieties, or (b) varieties which bear relatively small bunches and 
must therefore bear more bunches to make a crope Further details in book mentioned below. 
WINS -MARING RaQUISi Tks 
Since some wine-making requisites are hard to find, we carry a stock of the essential ones, 
including a number of items which we import from Francee Among these are saccharometers, 
acid-testing test, alcohol-testing sets, small crushers and wine presses, small corking 
machines of various models, sulphur pastilles, racking tube, bottle fillers, grape hoes, 
and so one Ask for circular or tell us your wants. 
Good wine glasses are hard to finde We have hypnotized a manufacturer into making a good 
inexpensive stemmed glass of classic pattern and generous size (8 oz«), handsome enough for 
any table and cheap enough for everyday use. $6675 the dozen, postpaid. 
BOOKS 
We offer "A Wine Grower's Guide™ by Philip M. Wagner, the standard work on grape-growing and 
wine-making, for $3000 postpaid. Mr. Wagner's earlier book, “American Wines And How To Make 
Them," dealt in greater detail with wine-making. The third edition is exhausted, and we sadly 
inform you that the task of rewriting it is not completed. We will tell you when at last the 
new edition is completed and published. 
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