386 O EH T H E C U L T U R E Part III. 



caufe the eyes to flidot out ftrong lateral branches, whereby they 

 will be greatly injured. 



" During the Inmmer feafon, you fliould be very careful to rub ofF 

 all dangling branches, and train up the (hoots regularly to the wall, 

 as before, which will greatly accelerate the growth of the fruit, and 

 alfo aditlit the fun and air, which is abfolutely necelTary to ripen and 

 give it a rich flavour: but you muft never divert the branches of 

 their leaves, as is the pradllce of fome perfons ; for although the ad- 

 mitting of the fun is neceffary to ripen the grapes, yet if they are 

 too much expofed thereto, their fkins will be tough, and they will 

 rarely ripein : bendes, the leaves being abfolutely neceffary to nourifli 

 the fruit, by taking them off, the fruit is ftarved, and feldom comes 

 to any fize : therefore a great regard iliould be had to the fummer 

 management of the vines, where perfons are defirous to have their 

 fruit excellent and duly ripened. 



** When all the fruit is gathered, you fliould prune the vines, 

 whereby the litter of their leaves will be entirely removed at once, 

 and their fruit will be the forwarder the fucceeding year." 



For the farther culture of the vine, in gardens, and in the diffe- 

 rent countries of Europe, we refer the curious to the article Vitis 

 in Mr. Miller's Gardener's Didlionary, and fhall proceed to give that 

 gentleman's directions for the management 



SECTION II. 



Of Vineyards in E.ngland. 



<«'T^HERE have of late years been bu't very few vineyards in 

 ** -■- England, though they were formerly very common, as may 

 <* be gathered from the feveral places in divers parts of England 

 " which yet retain that name, as alfo from ancient records, which 

 '< teftify the quantities of ground that were allotted for vineyards, 

 " to abbeys and monafteries, for wine for the ufe of the inhabitants ; 

 •' but ais to the quality of the wines which were then produced in 

 *' England, we are at prefent ignorant; and how thefe vineyards 

 " were rooted up, and became fo generally negledted, we have no 

 ** very good accounts left. Whatever might be the caufe of this total 

 <•*. negledtdf cultivating vines in England, I will not pretend to de* 

 ■♦' term^irie, but fuch was the prejudice moft people conceived to any 

 ■** attempt-s of producing wine in England, that, for fbme ages paft, 

 «« every trial of that kind has been ridiculed by the generality of 



" people. 



