. The California fruits and how to grow them;. Fruit culture. 308 CALIFORNIA FRUITS : HOW TO GROW THEM ally a stump of one to two feet or more. As with trees so with vines, the practice is to prune to make lower heads than during the early- years of California fruit growing. Long Pruning.—Some varieties grown for market and for raisin making do not thrive if pruned by the short-spur system. Notable among these are the Sultana, Sultanina, (Thompson's Seedless), Em- peror and Sabalskanski. There are also a number of wine varieties which must be pruned long. Whatever the variety of vine and what-
. The California fruits and how to grow them;. Fruit culture. 308 CALIFORNIA FRUITS : HOW TO GROW THEM ally a stump of one to two feet or more. As with trees so with vines, the practice is to prune to make lower heads than during the early- years of California fruit growing. Long Pruning.—Some varieties grown for market and for raisin making do not thrive if pruned by the short-spur system. Notable among these are the Sultana, Sultanina, (Thompson's Seedless), Em- peror and Sabalskanski. There are also a number of wine varieties which must be pruned long. Whatever the variety of vine and what- ever the system of pruning to be ultimately adopted, the treatment for the first two and even three years is practically identical and is that which has already been described in Fig. 3. Three-year-old vines after pruning. a. Average vine with two spurs. b. Vigorous vines with three spurs, the lowest of which is to be removed the following r. c. Vigorous vine with three spurs. Long pruning admits of degrees, but it usually signifies using a five or six instead of a four-foot stake and leaving the selected canes from eighteen inches to three feet longer instead of cutting back to two or three buds, as in short pruning. These long canes are securely tied to the long stakes. With varieties needing long pruning the first two or three buds next the old wood do not bear fruit, hence the need of leaving buds farther removed from the old wood to secure it. This habit of the vine invites the practice of growing a long cane for fruit and at the same time pro- viding for wood growth for the following year's fruiting by cutting. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wickson, Edward James, 1848- [from old catalog]. San Francisco, Cal. , Pacific rural press
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