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Show TRAINING GRAPE VINES. Salt Lake CiT'i , March 29:h, 1S7D. Editors Herald: If the grape vine lovca to do anything, any-thing, it lores to climb. Io its native woods tue wiU grape viiiu is very ambitious, am-bitious, though dependent, spreading :tcif Ireely on the brauchea ol the trees. li there is anything '.he grape vine dielifcee, it dUlikea "vet Jeet." Tne fa vert to bubitat of Ihe vine ia nut a swamp. Tue vine delights in a moderately dry soil, a soil tolerably well drained, uAturaliy ur arlificittlly. With ibis proviso, the vine will flour-ieh flour-ieh in a variety of 0:is. It will grow and produc3 dtlic oua fru.t in :oila eo rocky and apparently poor aa lo be considered eteril?. Almost ail the bench lands in the territory would grow grapes very well, where the Eea-sjn Eea-sjn is long enough, as in Ihia valley, or Utah valley, providid there was sutLicient moioture in the soil, and grapes do uot rt quire EO much water aa many other crops do. Borne vine-yardiatH vine-yardiatH go eo far aa to say that (he best land for vines ia the "land that will grow nothing else." The very decided climbing propensity propen-sity of the grapo vine necessitates training. It not convenient to have the vines climb eo high and 0 far. It iB not expedient to grow large trees for one's vines to spread themselves upon. Besides, the trees would rob the soil ot much DUtri-raent DUtri-raent that should be reserved (or tho vines, and loo much room would be monopolized in this way. Neither is it expedient to erect immense im-mense trellises nor to build enormous and extensive arbors (or the vines to run upon. Who could afford it? Whose purse would be sufficient lor these things? Economy and convenience con-venience eay that the climbing propensity pro-pensity of the vino must bo brought under control, as the roaming propensity pro-pensity of animals is when they are domesticated. The vine must be trained to expand in growth in certain directions and to content itself within certain moderate limits, in order that its fruit may be more. All training of the vine depends upon ono tact, the fact of renewal. Grapea are borne upon shoota or branches which spring out of shoots or branches grown the preceding year. Thus, the branches that will produce our crop of grapea thia year will spring out of buds upon tho branches that grew Iiut year. Consequently, there musi be an annual growth ol branches to produce an annual crop ot grapes. In other words, the bearing bear-ing wood of the vino must be aunually renewed. How to do this, and to do it in such a manner aa to produce the largest quantity and best quality of grapes, in the most convenient and economical manner, on a given area of laid, is the great problem of grape culture, grape growing, grape training, train-ing, grape pruning. tipeaking in general terms, all training of tho grape vino ia done oo the renewal system, but technically the training ot the vine is divided iuto two principal fiystems the renewal system, and the spur system. These, agaiu, are variously subdivided. I may name some ot the more prominent promin-ent methods, lam writing concern -ing out-door grape growing. Technically, the renewal system consists in growing each year ouo or more branches or rods or caneB, whichever thay may bo called, mipiallu In 1ih thfi hfiLrinir nimrs nl , the next year, and a!aO almost invariably invari-ably ibe cutting away of the current year's bearing cunes at the late lull or earlv ppriu priming, so that the bearing canes :'rc renewed each year with unfailing regularity. The simplest kind of renewal train ing consists in having two canes on the vine, cue of the canes bearing the fruit Urn year, and the other growing during tbo summer, from the base ol ibis year's bearing cane, lor the pur pose of becoming the bearing cane next year. In tiie late fall or early spring, the bearing cane of the past summer is cut down, leaving not less than OLe good plump bud at the base ol the cane for another cane lo grow Iroru next Bummer. The cane that grew the past summer ia aleo shortened, perhaps to four or five fct-t io length. Soaje cultivators grow two cauc-e to the vine each year and fruit two. Bomo will grow two cants, but only fruit one of them, Ihe other of the now cunes to be cut away with the old cane at the annual pruning alter the fruit has been gathered and the ! leaves have fallen. 1 There is another fact in grape growth. There is a tendency of the : vigor of tbo vino going toward the end of the cants and developing iuut ol the plumpest buds away irum the base, at the expense of Ibeso nearer liie buau, aud this particularly when tho cauo is perpendicular, or approaching ap-proaching a vertical position. Consequently Con-sequently it is a custom with some grape- growers to occasionally pinch oil' the ends uf the growing canes in order t.i check tho elongation and 1 cause the etip lo flow mure largely intu llio buds nnarcr the baso and develop liieni moro !ul!y. Jt ia , a custom, in Iho spring, before the 1 burie cti.it, to lay the canes dawn J horizontal lv that the various bud" upon tbeui tnny break with mare uniform vigar than tiny wonlJ be hkt-iy to du if tho canes were l. l-e kept in an upright po-itinn. Hero cortii'.-t in tlie 0rri)nt: s-ysirm of b'jw train; nj, much iwl with tlie Catawba grapu in the Ohio vineyard;', and hence called tlie Ohio bowsvetem. Tuis system ci n-sieta n-sieta iD growing one or two uprigt.t cam 8 each year to each vine, wim h are lud, as they grow, to one or Iw.i stakes. At ti.e annual pruning tliiu cane ia fhortned to B'jrti length " is considered bc-l, and in the nu:iij, i'cfu.-e tue vims iff, it ia b?nl round in t:ic sijape of a ljw or a ho'jp, and is t;ed io thnt s'lape to Ihe nuke. 1 he fruit is borne on shoo'.s which f-prir:: from bud a on this bow, while another cane pmws from the base to (..tuj Hie fruiting Lo fcr the next year. Tne fruiting c:ui& is bent in ine form of a b:iw or iio p to cause the bude to brenk wit ii uter ( juaijiy r;f etrniii and vig.r. If two canes are frui't-l, t:u-n (bey are botn bent roui.d in toe b.iw ia.-hi-m, wni'fl two uIkt canes grew to farm the fruiting l-jwf far the n-xt year. ronm per 'fsiis. train Iheir vines in a hm f.-i!::xn ou the renewal pys-t'.rn, pys-t'.rn, proving two or inir- can: c.i-i yr.tr, and fni.t.ng an tq iil la-.inl.T, c-f thr;,i Fi.rfadir.L-o Fi.rfadir.L-o il fr.'iu tin- trunk nice .t Un. v t,.e piii;:i(Mi n.i... -1 oi" trvr.mg j kuiT.u :-i t..e r. ! cw.i o c -i.t- g:n.;i g : i.i? : nlv 00'-) lior.z .nt.ii am.?, cai.ii c:i..ut fur Icet ' long, and a (uot or o above the 'ground. From the buds on the?e j arms grow, in an upright direction, number of caues, say four on each arm. 01 these cunes, every other is a bearing caise, and the rest are canet growing this year to become (he bearing caues of next year. At the annual pruning the four bearing canss are cut down to the base, leaving one or two buds on each, from which canes are expecli d to grow Ihe next fcnmmer in trder lo become ibf bearing canes the tummer after the one in which tbey grow. Thus ti.ere is an annual renewal oi bearing canes springing irom Ihe horizontal arms, aud an annual change ol location ol the bearing caues and the growing canes, each changing places with the ether every year. There is another renewal method ol training, io which, ins'ead of having horizontal arms for the canes to spring from, nn upright trunk is preserved, tour, five or six feet high, from which, lo tight and left, spring Ihv growing and bearing canes, in a horizontal direction. Bui I believe the horizontal arm method is much more generally preferred. |