Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . he buds develop vigorously, it will beeasy, by means of pinching, to establish perfect equilibrium betweenthe arms. It is also important, at this pruning, to do away with allthe old ligatures that are too tight, which would impede the circula-tion of the sap. It sometimes happens that the cane forming the cordon cannotreach the next vine; in this case the arms are installed on the firstpart of the cordon, and the latter is prolonged by means of a cane ingood position, which is
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . he buds develop vigorously, it will beeasy, by means of pinching, to establish perfect equilibrium betweenthe arms. It is also important, at this pruning, to do away with allthe old ligatures that are too tight, which would impede the circula-tion of the sap. It sometimes happens that the cane forming the cordon cannotreach the next vine; in this case the arms are installed on the firstpart of the cordon, and the latter is prolonged by means of a cane ingood position, which is fastened to the next vine and disbudded likea one-year-old cordon. (See Fig. 71.) Then less buds are left on thearms, and they are pinched a little more severely to oblige the sap toflow to this prolongation. Figure 71 represents three vines which, the first year, were not longenough to reach the bend of the neighboring vine. The dotted linesin the figure indicate the arms that are wanting, and which must beinstalled the following year; it is essential to pay careful attention tothe shoots destined to form The bend of the first vine of each row is bare, as there is no cordonto be supported by it; this fault is remedied by having a cane, c, come 6* 42 PRACTICAL MANUAL OF from the base of the first arm (Fig. 72), which lies horizontally onthe cordon towards the end of the row; the following year two armsare left on this cane at tlie dotted lines, b, b, thereby hlling the emptyspace, as shown in Figure 63 at the beginning of this chapter.
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