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arid in which a reliance may be had that it 

 will attain a fair maturity, unless destroyed by 

 violent heat, or some such unforeseen calamity, 

 from which it not unfrequently perishes, and 

 which unfortunately in this country (Switzer- 

 land) is doomed to experience. 



In pruning this vine, I have tried the experi- 

 ment of leaving two or three buds, more than 

 the number prescribed by the usual rules of vine 

 dressing. The consequence was, that I had that 

 season more bunches of grapes, but they were 

 smaller, and of course less liable to wilt or 

 perish. 



The petite rougeasse produces more fruit than 

 the other. It is of the two that which is more 

 sure, and loves a warm exposure. When the vine 

 pushes strong and heavy wood, and produces 

 little fruit, two or three additional branches to 

 each trunk should be left in the pruning, accord- 

 ing to the strength of the plant. But in this 

 case such branches must in no wise be allowed 

 more than one button, and the " borgue."* It 

 shou-ld be here remarked, that where the vines are 

 pruned too high, the quality of the wines is in- 

 ferior ; as, for example, it is the intention of a pro- 

 prietor to eradicate a vine plantation, it is the 

 usual practice to prune the preceding season 

 with that view, leaving the branches long, in or- 

 der to obtain a heavy crop of fruit. * But what is 



* The bourge is the button the first of the new branch, 

 nearest the old wood, and which does not produce fruit in the 

 same quantity, nor of the like quality as the other buds. 



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