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roof (where I intended to cut them at their winter 

 pruning), according to the vigor of the different 

 shoots ; and then I pinched off their tops, in order to 

 strengthen the eyes for the ensuing season. The 

 weaker shoots I only suffered to run about three four, 

 or five feet, according to their strength, and I then 

 pinched off their tops, never allowing them to push 

 above two or three eyes from the same place, during 

 the remainder of the season, without pinching them 

 back ; and then retaining only a single eye, unless I 

 found it necessary, in consequence of the vigor of the 



Fig. 29. 



vine. I kept the laterals stopped back also to the first 

 leaf. At the fall of the leaf, I cut the leading shoots 



