466 — ‘QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Jenn, 1898. 
and the vine shows great vigour, the long-rod system may be still further 
developed, as in Fig. 7, where it is quadrupled and called the Cazenave, but 
some management would be necessary to provide the elongated stock on which 
the spurs are developed. 
The vigneron will ask, “ But how am I to know whether a vine is too 
much pruned or not pruned enough—whether it is vigorous enough to bear the 
double or quadruple Guyot systems?” The answer is, If the vine is pruned 
too much the canes will be long, thick, and probably branched, bearing little 
fruit. If the vine is pruned too long, the shoots will be weak and stunted. 
It is a thermometer there is no mistaking. So long as the spurs for wood 
continue to produce canes sufficiently long for next year’s fruit-branch, the 
vigneron may continue to lengthen the pruning of the fruit-branch; but when 
the canes begin to weaken and shorten, he must shorten his fruit-branch. He 
has only to keep his eye on the canes for next year’s fruit-branch to have an 
infallible guide to prune by. These canes should not be less than from 3% feet 
to 4 feet in length. Be careful in pruning to leave the fruit-branch above the 
spur for wood and not vice versd, or the stock will increase in length too 
rapidly. It wiil be well also to pinch off the first two buds of the fruit- 
branch when they invariably prove sterile, but not otherwise. 
SHORT PRUNING. 
As before mentioned, short pruning is adapted for certain varieties of 
vines that have all the buds on the canes equally fertile. Short pruning in 
this case causes no loss to the vigneron, and the vineyard can be cultivated 
without training the vine on wires. The vine in its third year, as shown in 
Fig. 1, is pruned to two spurs, B heing cut away as for long pruning, and A and 
C shortened to two eyes each. Next year instead of two spurs three may be 
left of two eyes each, always choosing a shoot to form the spur, as near the 
stock as possible, as in Fig. 8. The following season another spur can be 
