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Vine Pruning - Frederic T. Bioletti
VINE PRUNING.
BY F. T. BIOLETTI.
The literature relating to the pruning and training of the vine is already very voluminous, but there seems to be no one work which treats the subject in a thorough and convenient way for California vine-growers. Publications in English refer generally to methods suited to the Eastern States or to hot-house cultivation, while foreign publications, besides being more or less inaccessible, treat the subject so widely that the grower is at a loss what to choose from such a mass of material. It is the purpose of this Bulletin, therefore, to present a brief summary of what in foreign methods seems useful and applicable to California conditions, together with the results of experiments on the University of California vine plots, and of observations made in numerous vineyards in various regions of the State.
Almost every vine-growing district has its peculiar systems of training, ranging from the non-training usual in parts of Italy, where the vine spreads almost at will over trees planted for the purpose, to the acme of mutilation practiced in many localities where the vine is reduced to a mere stump barely rising above the surface of the ground. These various systems will not be discussed here, but only those which experience has shown to be most adapted to California conditions.
No account, however detailed, of any system can replace the intelligence of the cultivator. For this reason the general principles of plant physiology which underlie all proper pruning and training are discussed in connection with the several systems described. This should aid the grower in choosing that system most suited to the conditions of his vineyard, and to modify it to suit special conditions and seasons. All the operations of pruning, tying, staking, etc., to which a cultivated vine owes its form, are conveniently considered together.
No cultivated plant is susceptible of such a variety of modes of training as the vine, and none can withstand such an amount of abuse in this matter and such radical interference with its natural mode of growth. On the other hand, no other plant, perhaps, is so sensitive to proper treatment, or responds so readily to a rational mode of pruning and training.
OBJECTS OF PRUNING.—The objects of pruning are (a) to facilitate cultivation and gathering, (b) to increase the average yield, and (c) to