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system may be doubled, as at Fig. 4; it will be well to keep one or two 
adventitious shoots pruned to two eyes, as at Fig. 5, to be enabled to double 
the system at any time or to replace canes ‘damaged by wind or accidents. 
The method of pruning just described is called the single and double Guyot 
or single and double rod-pruning. The Quarante system is a double Guyot 
with the fruit-branches crossed, as at Fig..6. In Europe, where vines are 
planted much closer than in Australia, this method is adoptedsbecause it takes 
up less room than the double Guyot. When the soil is very rich and fertile, 
