. The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the differenct districts of the state. Fruit-culture. 312 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM In stump pruning there is a difference of practice as to low head- ing according to locality. In the interior regions the vine is now headed almost at the surface of the ground; in the coast regions there is usually a stump of one or 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 Ca
. The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the differenct districts of the state. Fruit-culture. 312 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM In stump pruning there is a difference of practice as to low head- ing according to locality. In the interior regions the vine is now headed almost at the surface of the ground; in the coast regions there is usually a stump of one or 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), Emperor and Zabalskanski. Whatever the variety of vine and what- ever the system of pruning to be ultimately adopted, the treatment. 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 fol- lowing year. c. Vigorous vine with three spurs. for the first two and even three years is practically identical and is that which has already been described in detail. 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of th
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