American Grape Training: An Account of the Leading Forms Now in Use of Training the American Grapes

New York: The Rural Publishing Company, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Boards lightly soiled. 1893 Hard Cover. 95, [9] pp. By the co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science, who wrote it after being unable to find resources on up-to-date growing methods specifically suited to American grape-growing, which at the time was only about a generation old. Includes 37 illustrations. Contents include: Introduction; Pruning; Preliminary Preparations for Training, The Trellis, Tying; The Upright Systems (Horizontal Arm Spur System, High Renewal, Fan Training); The Drooping Systems (True or Four-Cane Kniffin, Modificationsn 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); Miscellaneous Systems (Horizontal Training, Post Training, Arbors, Remodeling Old Vines).