Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . earth from around the foot of the vines, to forcesuckers to start below ground, the chaintres on old vines would havethe aspect of young vines. We would not recommend this chaintre method of culture for soilwhere the weeds grow very profusely, as in mostof the bottom lands,but we are convinced that for most soils it would be advantageousand economical. It does not cost much to experiment with a fewrows. To the incredulous, who might think that the cliaintres existsolely in our
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . earth from around the foot of the vines, to forcesuckers to start below ground, the chaintres on old vines would havethe aspect of young vines. We would not recommend this chaintre method of culture for soilwhere the weeds grow very profusely, as in mostof the bottom lands,but we are convinced that for most soils it would be advantageousand economical. It does not cost much to experiment with a fewrows. To the incredulous, who might think that the cliaintres existsolely in our imagination, we shall say: follow our example ; go toMontrichard, on the road from Tours to Viorzon; visit not only Chis-say, but its environs, on the right as well as the left of the Clier,where now, almost everywhere, vines are planted to be trained enchaintres. I SKCOND ANNU/M. Ili:P()irr CHIEF EXECUTIVE VITICULTURAL OFFICER BOARD OF STATE VITICULTURAL COMMISSIONERS For the Year 1882-3. OFFICE: 111 Leidesdorff Street, San Francisco, Cal. APPENDIX II. Practical Manual of Priiiiiiiir as Practiced near SACRAMENTO: STATE OI-^FICE JAMKS J. AYKRS, SUPT. STATK PRINTING, 1883. PREFACE. As in my preface to Appendix I, I shall avoid discussing the mer-its of the various systems of pruning and training the vine, whichare set forth in the following translation of certain chapters of thevery valuable work of Mons. Arm and Cazenave, a distinguishedvine-grower near Bordeaux, France. Only Part II, relating to sj^s-tems of pruning and training vines, has been translated. ChapterIX was published in Appendix I of this report. The intelligent reader will take note of the differences of climatebetween the vine-growing sections of California and those near Bor-deaux, and will no doubt perceive many modifications of the Frenchsystems, which might be applied here. The principles of pruning,as discussed by Mons. Cazenave, will be far more valuable to ourvine-growers than the explanation o
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