. Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation. Fruit-culture -- United States; Fruit. PRUNING AND TR UNIXG. 237 or joints, and the third year to four or five; pinching off laterals tying up, and hoeing the vines as recommended above. Replant where failures have occured. Th
. Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation. Fruit-culture -- United States; Fruit. PRUNING AND TR UNIXG. 237 or joints, and the third year to four or five; pinching off laterals tying up, and hoeing the vines as recommended above. Replant where failures have occured. The third year the vines will produce a few grapes. Train two canes to the stake this year, and take otf ; We advise the cutting down or pruning to be done as soon as the fall of the leaf in autumn, but any time when the frost is not in the wood will answer. " Pruning the fourth year requires good judgment, as stem or stalk has to be ; " Select the best shoot or cane of last year, and cut it down to six or eight joints, and fasten it to the adjoining stake in a horizontal position, or bend it over in the form of a hook or bow, and tie it to its own stake. The ties should be of willow. This is the bearino- wood. The other cane, cut down to a spur of two or three eyes, to make bearing wood for the next season. " ' Give the shoot the first tie on the stake nine inches from the ground, and the second, nine inches above it; then bow it over to the neighboring stake in a horizontal position, and give it the third tie to the stake, at that top of the vine.' "In the succeeding, and all subsequent years, cut away the old bear- ing wood, and form the new bow, or arch, from the best branch of the new wood of the last year, leaving a spur as before, to produce bearing wood for the coming year, thus keeping the old stalk of the vine down to within eighteen to twenty-four inches from the ground. The vine is then always within reac
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