. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 560. Fig. 561. bearing shoots, will present the appearance shown in Fig. growing one season, as in Fig. 559, each shoot is to becut down to a good bud, as in Fig. 563. This bud is to growand form the bearing shoot for next year. The pruning shouldbe done as closely as practicable to the horizontal arms, pro-vided one good strong bud is left on the stump or spur. Afterthe pruning is completed, the vines (already represented byFig. 558) will exhibit the appearance in Fig. 562. The vineis now ready to throw up another set of bearing shoots for thecom
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 560. Fig. 561. bearing shoots, will present the appearance shown in Fig. growing one season, as in Fig. 559, each shoot is to becut down to a good bud, as in Fig. 563. This bud is to growand form the bearing shoot for next year. The pruning shouldbe done as closely as practicable to the horizontal arms, pro-vided one good strong bud is left on the stump or spur. Afterthe pruning is completed, the vines (already represented byFig. 558) will exhibit the appearance in Fig. 562. The vineis now ready to throw up another set of bearing shoots for thecoming year. It is the practice of some cultivators to leave * Bleeding, or the rapid escape of the sap by spring pruning, causes muchless injury than is generally supposed, and many cultivators who have madethe experiment thoroughly have scarcely perceived any unfavorable result onhardy grapes. THE GRAPE. 413 two or even three buds on each spur, so as to form two orthree bearing shoots from each, in order to obtain a fullercrop.
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