. The book of the garden. Gardening. THE GRAPE VINE. 609 shoot b must also be cut down to two buds. This attention to keep each spur supplied with bearing-wood as near to the main stem as pos- sible, must in every future pruning be strictly ; Paxton's method of spur-pruning.—This intel- ligent cultivator details in "Gardeners' Chro- nicle," 1842, pp. 767 and 758, another mode of spur-pruning, which we think admirably adapted to out-of-door culture, and, like the Thomery mode, it reduces the whole operation to some- thing like system. " The sketch " (fig. 247),
. The book of the garden. Gardening. THE GRAPE VINE. 609 shoot b must also be cut down to two buds. This attention to keep each spur supplied with bearing-wood as near to the main stem as pos- sible, must in every future pruning be strictly ; Paxton's method of spur-pruning.—This intel- ligent cultivator details in "Gardeners' Chro- nicle," 1842, pp. 767 and 758, another mode of spur-pruning, which we think admirably adapted to out-of-door culture, and, like the Thomery mode, it reduces the whole operation to some- thing like system. " The sketch " (fig. 247), he Fig. PAXTON'S MODE OF VINE-TRAINING. says, " represents a portion of the vine when pruned in autumn on the spur system, with short rods of five or six. eyes each left at con- venient intervals on the oldest branches through- out the vine. The perpendicular main shoots should not be less than 2 feet apart, and when pruning them no useless eyes should be left— that is, no eye should be allowed to remain but where a shoot is desired in the following season. By attending to this the vine wiU not have to develop (as is usually the case) an immense quantity of superfiuous branches; and although this operation may appear a tedious one at the time of pruning, an immense saving of labour and time will be effected at a busier period in spring, and the quantity of fruit may be easier regulated in proportion to the strength of the vine. If this is attended to, nothing will be required in summer but securing the young fruit-bearing shoots to the wall, and shortening them at one eye above the bunch as soon as the fruit is set, excepting the leading shoots, which should not be stopped until the lower part is ripened, otherwise the main eyes for the next season may be induced to grow prematurely. In autumn the young wood from the spur is shortened back to one or at most two eyes, and the terminal shoots in proportion to their strength ; but, for the strongest wood, from eight
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