| Show pr pruning nang grape vines P mr W W vineland N J siye grapevines grape vines that have come to a hearing age may be pruned in such a manner as to be very certain of the results by examining the vines wh chuy they are growing gro wine one cin can very read readies se see e from which bud of the previous years growth came the branches that are producing too inn crop of the current year this will serve is as a guide to the pruning lor for the next crop and so on from year boyear to year shoots from canes older than the last year very seldom produce anything but wood but that woo i 1 is ail right for 1 a L crop next year the shoots from th the e anil auxiliary iary buds where the new a ayd d old wood cume together will hard hardly y ever produce any grapes the fai st bud beyond the axil will be found to fruit but the clusters from the then next at bud and from several further on 74 will ill generally bear the shouldered tr anches of the crop I 1 have found in my experience that six buds on OB a strong cane so po elected will generally yield three noc fine lusters each and occasional ay iy tour four V ula to the capacity cipa city of the vine we kiy look for thia number of clusters from r t uda ot very strong and vigorous vi vig giroua irous caba of the last years growth hence bording to the number cumber of perfect cju gaters stera the capable of Dro ducine we can readily select those jiving ivi t b I 1 t promise abd out canall all the oth e ot of gre greatly at r reduces JD e labor as compared with the old e 0 0 leaving of 0 one or two b budal u a i alt over tb theline eIlie the and gives little wood and anid ma many alny grapes ipes |
