. American grape growing and wine making. ach one to justabove the last promising lookingbunch. If a bud has startedtwo, or even three shoots, rub offthe weaker, leaving but one andthe strongest, and if any bud hasnot started vigorously, rub it offaltogether. Go over the othercane in the same manner, and ifyou think there are still too manybunches, take away the vine in its third season, how-ever strong it may be, should notbe allowed to bear over 15 lbs. of grapes, and if allowedthirty to forty bunches it will have that quantity, jDro-vided it is not a variety which bears but small
. American grape growing and wine making. ach one to justabove the last promising lookingbunch. If a bud has startedtwo, or even three shoots, rub offthe weaker, leaving but one andthe strongest, and if any bud hasnot started vigorously, rub it offaltogether. Go over the othercane in the same manner, and ifyou think there are still too manybunches, take away the vine in its third season, how-ever strong it may be, should notbe allowed to bear over 15 lbs. of grapes, and if allowedthirty to forty bunches it will have that quantity, jDro-vided it is not a variety which bears but small is the time to thin the fruit, before it has abstractedany strength from the \dne. If any shoots are not suf-ficiently developed to show their condition, we .pass themby, and go over the vine again after a few days. This early pinching of the young shoots has the ten-dency to throw all the vigor into the development of theyoung bunches and the leaves remaining on the shoot,which now develop with astonishing rapidity. It is a. Fig. 20.—PINCHING. AND WIiq^E MAKING. 93 gentle checking, and leading the sap into other channels,not the violent process which is often followed long afterthe bloom, when the shoots have so hardened that theknife must be used, and by which the plant is robbedof a large part of its leaves, to the injury of both fruitand vine. Let any one who wishes to satisfy himself,summer-prune a vine accordmg to this method, and leavethe next vine until after the bloom ; he will soon be con-vinced which is best. Since I first practised this method,now about twenty years, it has added at least one-thirdto the quantity and quality of my crop, and it is now fol-lowed by most of the intelligent growers of my also gives an early opportunity to destroy the smallworms, a species of leaf-folder, which are very trouble-some about this time, eating the young bunches andleaves, and which generallymake their web among thetender leaves at the end of theshoot.
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