Produced by Cathy Maxam and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) AMERICAN GRAPE TRAINING An account of the leading forms now in use of Training the American Grapes. _By L. H. BAILEY_ NEW YORK: THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 1893. _By the same Author._ =Annals of Horticulture= in North America for the year 1889. A witness of passing events and a record of progress. 249 pages, 52 illustrations. =Annals for 1890.= 312 pages, 82 illustrations. =Annals for 1891.= 416 pages, 77 illustrations. =Annals for 1892.= *.* A new volume is issued each year, each complete in itself. Cloth, $1; paper, 60 cents. =The Horticulturist's Rule-Book.= A compendium of useful information for fruit-growers, truck-gardeners, florists and others. Second edition, revised to the opening of 1892. 221 pages. Cloth, $1; paper, 50 cents. =The Nursery Book.= A complete guide to the multiplication and pollination of plants. 304 pages, 106 illustrations. Cloth, $1; paper, 50c. =Cross-Breeding and Hybridizing.= With a brief bibliography of the subject. 44 pages. Paper, 40 cents. (Rural Library Series.) =Field Notes on Apple Culture.= 90 pages, 19 illustrations. Cloth, 75 cents. =Talks Afield=: About plants and the science of plants. 173 pages, 100 illustrations. Cloth, $1. COPYRIGHTED 1893, BY L. H. BAILEY. ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY J. HORACE M'FARLAND CO., HARRISBURG, PA. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Pages Introduction 9-11 Pruning 11-24 CHAPTER II. Preliminary Preparations for Training--The Trellis--Tying 25-33 CHAPTER III. The Upright Systems. (Horizontal Arm Spur System. High Renewal. Fan Training) 34-55 CHAPTER IV. The Drooping Systems. (True or Four-Cane Kniffin. Modifications of the Four-Cane Kniffin. The Two-Cane Kniffin or Umbrella System. The Low or One-Wire Kniffin. The Six-Cane Kniffin. Overhead, or Arbor Kniffin. The Cross-Wire System. Renewal Kniffin. The Munson System) 56-82 CHAPTER V. Miscellaneous Systems. (Horizontal Training. Post Training. Arbors. Remodeling Old Vines) 83-92 [Illustration: (Drawing of grapes)] ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 1. Grape Shoot 12 2. The Bearing Wood 13 3. Diagram 15 4. Spur 18 5. Renewal Pruning 19 6. A Newly Set Vineyard 21 7. Horizontal Arm Spur Training 35 8. Horizontal Arm (Diagram) 36 9. Short Arm Spur Training 38 10. The Second Season of Upright Training 40 11. Making the T-Head 42 12. The Third Season of High Renewal 43 13. High Renewal, before Pruning 44 14. High Renewal, Pruned 45 15. High Renewal, Pruned and Tied 46