. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. ots when green, and canes when shoot growing out of the vine above groundon any part older than one year (wsJ is called awatersprout. Shoots coming from any part ofthe vine below ground (s) are called a cane is cut-back to 1, 2, 3, or 4 ej^es, itis called a spur (rj. When a shoot or cane ofone season sends out a secondary shoot the sameseason, the latter (I) is called a lateral. The Fig. 315 represents an arm of a vine as itappears in winter after the leaves have falle
. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. ots when green, and canes when shoot growing out of the vine above groundon any part older than one year (wsJ is called awatersprout. Shoots coming from any part ofthe vine below ground (s) are called a cane is cut-back to 1, 2, 3, or 4 ej^es, itis called a spur (rj. When a shoot or cane ofone season sends out a secondary shoot the sameseason, the latter (I) is called a lateral. The Fig. 315 represents an arm of a vine as itappears in winter after the leaves have canes (w^) are the matured shoots of theprevious spring, w^, w^, w^ represents two, threeand four-year-old wood resx)ectively. Near the TERMINOLOGY OF THE VINE 497 base of each caue is a basal bud or eye (b°). Incounting the number of eyes on a spur, the basaleye is not included. A cane cut at K^, for in-stance, leaves a spur of one eye, at k^ a spur oftwo eyes, and so on. When more than four eyesare left, the piece is generally called a fruitingcane (Fig. 314,/). The canes (c,c^) coming from. 314. Diagram to illustrate terminology, two-year-old wood (w^) possess fruit buds ; thatis, they are capable of producing fruit-bearingshoots. Watersprouts ftvsj and suckers fsj donot ordinarily produce fruit-bearing shoots. Be-low the basal bud each cane has one or more dor-mant buds (b, Fig. 316), which do not grow unlessthe number of eyes left by pruning or frost isinsufficient to relieve the excess of sap buds produce sterile shoots. Each eye ona cane has at its base two dormant buds. Oneof these sometimes grows out the year it is FF 498 VINIFERA GRAPE TRAINING formed, making* a lateral (/, Figs. 314, 315).These laterals may send out secondaiy laterals{si, Fig. 314). It is on the laterals and second-ary laterals that the so-called second and thirdcrops are borne. Proper method of making cuts.—It is by nomeans a matter of indifference just where the cut c
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