When Muscat vines have grown two seasons, they should be pruned for fruit. The third season will always give some fruit, while, in many localities where the vines have been well cared for, the yield may be quite large and pay handsomely. No direction as to pruning, which will apply to every locality or to every vine, is possible. In different localities the climatic and other conditions are so variable that the methods of pruning may be modified. Where the vines grow strong and vigorous more wood should be left. In cool and sheltered places the vines should be given a greater spread to allow more sun and air to enter. In warm localities, with a broiling sun, the principal object in pruning should be to properly shelter the grapes. There is danger, or at least there are great disadvantages in pruning either too long or too short, and in leaving too many or too few spurs. In pruning too long, or leaving too many eyes, the shape of the vine is changed or even seriously injured. In leaving too many spurs, the vines may bear too many and too small grapes. To find the medium between these extremes is always the great object and study to which the grower should devote his attention. In rich and moist soils which produce strong vines, more eyes should be left, and in sandy, poor soil a few eyes may suffice to cause the vine to bear much more that it can properly mature and perfect. The year before the vines bear their first good crop, the spurs left should not exceed three or four, and each spur should not have more than two eyes, including the eye nearest the old wood, which eye is often overlooked and not counted in. The next year a few more spurs may be left, but at no time should each spur be allowed to carry more than two eyes. If more eyes are left, the lower eyes will not develop, and the only thing attained by such pruning is to increase the size of the head, and to place the leaves and the grapes farther away from the center of the vine.