. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, fruit & ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, plants & bulbs, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 4 Lewis Roesch, Nurseryman, Pruning—The object of jruning is to grow the greatest amount of fruit of the best quality, and at the same time canes enough and. no more than to produce an equally good crop the next year. If grape vines are not sufficiently pruned they bear much more fruit than they are able to perfe
. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, fruit & ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, plants & bulbs, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 4 Lewis Roesch, Nurseryman, Pruning—The object of jruning is to grow the greatest amount of fruit of the best quality, and at the same time canes enough and. no more than to produce an equally good crop the next year. If grape vines are not sufficiently pruned they bear much more fruit than they are able to perfect. The result is they overbear, often to their permanent injury. The fruit is so small, scraggly and late as to be next to worthless, besides they fail to grow and ripen canes strong enough to bear a good crop the next season. By proper pruning you concentrate the vigor of a vine into a smaller number ot canes and clusters which it can perfect. The berries and clusters grow large and ripen early, thus you secure a greater number of pounds of fruit to the vine (though less clusters) of much superior quality, and at the same time strong, well ripened canes for the next year's bearing, and all this without any injury to the vine whatever. If vines do not grow strong enough, cultivate better, fertilize and trim close. If too strong and do not bear enough, give them more room, either by building the trellis higher or by cutting out every second or third vine. Prune the remaining ones longer so as to cover the space. Summer Pruning—This is intended to supplement winter pruning. It is done as soon as the new shoots get to be five or six inches long (early in June here) and consists in breaking off all new shoots that neither show flower buds nor are needed for the next season's bearing canes. All further pruning during the summer is harmful. How to Prune—The first fall after planting, cut the vines back to the ground again, leaving but a spur of three or four buds above ground.
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