. American grape growing and wine making. fruit-forming material, thereby keeping up a proper bal-ance between the top and base of the vine. In both methods the fruit hangs under the foliage andis shaded from the glare and heat of the sun. Grapesprotected in this manner have a much finer bloom thanwhen exposed. The canes are pruned to spurs of two orthree buds. Summer-pruning is not resorted to exceptto repress the overgrowth of canes to the end that theremay be a free circulation of air under the vines ; thoughthere can be no doubt that a judicious summer-pruningwould be beneficial. What I ha
. American grape growing and wine making. fruit-forming material, thereby keeping up a proper bal-ance between the top and base of the vine. In both methods the fruit hangs under the foliage andis shaded from the glare and heat of the sun. Grapesprotected in this manner have a much finer bloom thanwhen exposed. The canes are pruned to spurs of two orthree buds. Summer-pruning is not resorted to exceptto repress the overgrowth of canes to the end that theremay be a free circulation of air under the vines ; thoughthere can be no doubt that a judicious summer-pruningwould be beneficial. What I have called the ^ Horizontal Spiral method,is shown in figure 26. The trellis is formed of locuststakes sy.^ feet long, Sy^ inches thick, and are set to adepth of 18 inches, leaving them 4 feet high. Round A^B WINE MAKING. 177 chestnut poles of nearly the same thickness as thestakes are nailed to the top of them, the ends of the polesbeing made to lap, one upon the other. This method canbe used to advantage in vineyards where the vines are. Fig. 26.—HORIRONTAL SPIRAL METHOD. planted closely, say from 5 to 8 feet apart in the rows ; 8feet would be the better distance, the rows being 7 feetapart. The winding of the arm allows an increase in itslength of about one-third. The Horizontal Zig-Zag method is shown in figure
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