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only two buttons, or buds on each. The stronger 

 branches, or oars, must be carefully raised, and 

 after pruning, be securely attached to the stake or 

 support. These latter may be so pruned as to 

 leave five, six or seven buttons to each, according 

 to the strength and vigor of the branch. The 

 habit prevailing among some of the vignerons of 

 this Canton, (Vaud), of manuring^ the vineyard 

 the first and second year, is in my opinion pre- 

 judicial to the plants, as the effect of thus forcing 

 at too early a period the vegetation of the vines 

 is to accelerate an undue growth, causing it to 

 push its roots too near the surface of the ground, 

 besides engendering a host of parasitic plants 

 that infest the vineyard at the expense of the 

 young plantation. 



Sufficient nourishment is afforded to the roots 

 of the young plants from the manured soil at the 

 bottom of the trench, and should the superior 

 surface of the soil be as strong as that below, the 

 vegetation will be so rapid, that the vine incurs 

 a danger from too much kindness, and is expos- 

 ed to perish, as it were, from plethora. 



The vineyard should not be manured before 

 the fourth or fifth year from the planting of the 

 cuttings, and the application of the manure must 

 be regulated by the nature of the soil, and depth 

 of the plants. A strong or loamy soil, for ex- 

 ample, should not be manured so early as a soil 

 of light sand or gravel, as, in the former, besides 

 the great injury inflicted on the young vines from 

 the parasitic plants that in such endless variety 

 succeed the application of the manure, the vege- 

 tation of the young vines is so forced as to pro- 



