. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. ^, the horizontal arm sys-tem. Fan-TRAINING.— A system much used a fewyears ago, and still sometimes seen, is one whichrenews back nearly to the ground each year, andcarries the fruiting canes up in a fan-shapedmanner. This system has the advantages of dis-pensing with much of the old wood, or trunk, and 456 AMERICAN GRAPE TRAINING, CONCLUDED facilitating laying down the vine in winter incold climates. On the other hand, it has the dis-advantages of bearing the frnit too low—unlessthe lower
. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. ^, the horizontal arm sys-tem. Fan-TRAINING.— A system much used a fewyears ago, and still sometimes seen, is one whichrenews back nearly to the ground each year, andcarries the fruiting canes up in a fan-shapedmanner. This system has the advantages of dis-pensing with much of the old wood, or trunk, and 456 AMERICAN GRAPE TRAINING, CONCLUDED facilitating laying down the vine in winter incold climates. On the other hand, it has the dis-advantages of bearing the frnit too low—unlessthe lower clusters are removed—and making avine of inconvenient shape for tying. It is littleused at present. Fig. 289 shows a fan-trained. 290. The vine pruned vine before pruning. Fig. 290 is the same vinepruned, although it is by no means an ideal vine has- not been properly- renewed, but bearslong, crooked spurs, from which the canes of these spurs is seen to extend beyond thelower wire. The spurs should be kept verj^ short,and thev should he entirelv removed everv two FAN-TRAINING 457 or three j^ars, as explained iu the above discus-sion of the High Renewal training. The shoots are allowed to take their naturalcourse, being tied to any wire near which theychance to grow, finally lopping over the top the canes are bent down and tiedhorizontally to the wires, and this is probabl}
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