. Catalogue of grape vines and general nursery stock. Nursery stock New York (State) Fredonia Catalogs; Viticulture Catalogs; Fruit-culture Catalogs; Grapes Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Fredonia, N. Y. 6 Summer Pruning —This is intended to supplement winter pruning. It is done as soon as the new shoots get to be five or six inehes 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 i)runing during the summer is harmful. How to Prune —The first fall
. Catalogue of grape vines and general nursery stock. Nursery stock New York (State) Fredonia Catalogs; Viticulture Catalogs; Fruit-culture Catalogs; Grapes Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Fredonia, N. Y. 6 Summer Pruning —This is intended to supplement winter pruning. It is done as soon as the new shoots get to be five or six inehes 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 i)runing during the summer is harmful. How to Prune —The first fall after planting, cut the vines back to the ground again, leaving but one spur of three or four buds above ground. Let two canes grow the second season. They ought now to make a growth of from five to eight feet; if so, cut one of them back to three buds in the fall following, and the other to within three or four feet, to bear. Should they have made a larger growth, more may be left; if less, but little, if any. For if the vine is not strong enough to force a good growth of wood, it is too weak to bear fruit. As the vines grow older and stronger, from three to five canes may be left to bear (always preferring those that start within a foot of the root), and these trained out in fan shape on stakes or trellises. Two or more year old wood ought always to be cut down as much as {w^ssible, as it is the young wood only that bears fruit. This mode of trimming and training is called the fan system. But there are manv others, the description of which is not within the scope of this catalogue. Whatever system be adopted, the treatment the first two years is practically the same. Grape vines may be trained against building, fences, or on stakes and trellises. Wire trellises some five feet high are the best for vineyards. All young vines should be protected, at least the first winter or two, by plowing up to them, or otherwise covering them with soil. The pruning may be done any time
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