American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . fastening; do not lie too tightly, asthe arms are expected to increase in each arm, from four to six canes are to grow,according to the variety; those with large foliagerequiring more room must have the cauesfarther apart. The shoots desired for canesshould be from the upper side of the arm, ifpossible, but if from any accident this is notpracticable, one from the under side may grad-ually be trained up. All other shoots are to berubbed off. As these upright shoots grow theymust be carefully lied to Ihe trellis; they will
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . fastening; do not lie too tightly, asthe arms are expected to increase in each arm, from four to six canes are to grow,according to the variety; those with large foliagerequiring more room must have the cauesfarther apart. The shoots desired for canesshould be from the upper side of the arm, ifpossible, but if from any accident this is notpracticable, one from the under side may grad-ually be trained up. All other shoots are to berubbed off. As these upright shoots grow theymust be carefully lied to Ihe trellis; they willprobably set three bunches of fruit each, butone of these, or even two, if not a very vigorousvine, should be removed to prevent the commoninjury of overbearing. The shoots, during thesummer, are to have the same care in pinchinglaterals, removal of insects, etc., as we havealready indicated, and when they have reachedthe bight of about two feet, the top, or growingpoint, is to be pinched. There is much objectionby some, to this summer pinching. The reason. Fig. 13.—VINE WITH DOUBLE ARMS. for it is the same as we gave for pinching thelaterals—it produces greater health and vigor inthe remaining foliage, and enables it the betterto resist disease ; the forces of the viue whichwould be expended in prolonging the shoot, arediverted to other uses, among which is thebetter nutrition and development of the all has gone on well, the vine at pruning time will have the appearance shown in figure12—two horizontal arms, each bearing six orless upright canes. In the figure, one cane hasthe fruit left on, merely to show the place inwhich it is borne. If it be desired to keep thevine in this form, each upright cane is cut backto a single bud ; but usually two canes, insteadof one, are grown, and fromwhat has been before said,it will be readily seen thatthis may be effected by cut-ting the canes back to twobuds. This will leave thevine, after it is pruned, withtwo horizontal ar
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