468 — QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Junx, 1898, 
A variation of short pruning where wires are used is the horizontal cordon 
or Royat system, as in Fig. 11. Here the spurs are distributed along the stock, 
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bent at right angles along the wire, and should be equal in number to those in 
the goblet form. A double horizontal cordon has two arms, one on either side 
of the stock, with spurs at intervals. In France the horizontal cordon system 
is denounced by some writers on the ground that the exaggeration of the stock 
entails a decrepitude of the vine and affords more coyer for noxious insects, 
but there is no doubt that with many it is an attractive form of pruning. 
This system should not be adopted where, from poverty of soil or dryness of 
climate, the vegetation of the vine is feeble and insufficient to impede work in 
the vineyard if pruned goblet fashion. 
The same rule applies to short pruning as to long with regard to the 
number of spurs and eyes to be left on each. Watch your vegetation, and if 
the growth continues vigorous increase the number of spurs and eyes. Asa 
rule, eight spurs is a maximum fora goblet-shaped vine; if more than that 
number are formed, there will be crowding and insufficient aerification. If the 
vigour of the vine is such that eight spurs of two eyes each are insuflicient to 
carry off the sap, prune some of the spurs to three eyes, being careful to cut 
back again next pruning. 
One of the great mistakes many of the Queensland yignerons have made 
is when a spur has been lett with two or three eyes, each forming a cane in the 
following season, instead of cutting back to one spur with three eyes, they 
have pruned each cane to two or three eyes, so that every year the spurs are 
doubled in number until the vineyard becomes a kind of Isis Serub. No vine 
in the world can bear such a system of pruning without having its vigour and 
bearing power seriously weakened. 
Appended is a list of some of the vines more commonly met with in 
Queenr'and under the headings of short, long, and both ways of pruning. Tor 
yines not mentioned in this list, it may be taken as a general rule that, if the 
shoots are erect or semi-erect, short pruning is indicated ; when spreading or 
falling over to the ground, long pruning is required. Most table varictics are 
better for long pruning :— 
Short. Long. Short or Long. 
Oeillade . Carbenet Tsabella 
Alicante or Grenach Muscats Wilder and other Americans 
Carignan ; Jacquez or Lenoir Black Hamburg 
Mataro or Esparte ‘| Zante Black Prince 
Doradillo | Riesling Pinot or Black Cluster 
Verdeilho Shiraz (better long) 
Chasselas or Sweetwater 
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