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" ting, and raifing a little hill to each about three inches, fo as jufl: 

 " to cover the uppermoft eye or bud, which will prevent the wind 

 " and fun from drying any part of the cuttings, and this upper eye 

 " only will fl:ioot; the under ones moft of them will pufh out roots, 

 " fo that this flicot will be very ftrong and vigorous. 



" After they are thus planted, they will require no other care un- 

 " til they flioot, except to keep the ground clear from weeds, which 

 ** ihould be conllantly obferved : but as the diftance between the rows 

 " of vines is very great, fo the ground between them may be fown 

 ** or planted with any kind of efculent plants, which do not grow 

 *' tall, provided there is proper diftance left from the vines, and 

 " care taken that the vines are not injured by the crops, or in the 

 " gathering, and carrying them off the ground; and this hufbandry 

 •' may be continued three or four years, till the vines come to bear- 

 *' ing ; after which time there Ihould be no fort of crop put between 

 ** them in fummer; becaufe the cleaner the ground is kept between 

 " the vines, from weeds or plants, the more heat will be refledied to 

 " the grapes; but after the grapes are gathered, there maybe a crop 

 *' of coleworts for fpring ufe, planted between the rows of vines; and 

 ** the cultivating thefe will be of ufe to the vines, by ftirring of the 

 " ground : but as to watering, or any other trouble, there will be 

 •* no occalion for it, notwithftanding what fome people have di- 

 " redled; for in England there is no danger of their mifcarrying by 

 ** drought. When the cuttings begin to fhoot, there fhould be a 

 " fmall flick of about three feet long ftuck down by each, to which 

 " the fhoots fhould be faftened, to prevent their breaking or lying on 

 ** the ground, fo that as the fhoots advance, the faftening fhould 

 " be renewed, and all fmall lateral flioots (if there are any fuch 

 " produced) fhould be conflantly difplaced, and the ground between 

 " the vines always kept clean. This is the whole management 

 •* which is required the firft fummer. 



" But at Michaelmas, when the vines have done fhooting, they 

 *' fhould be pruned, for if they are left unpruned till fpring, their 

 " fhoots being tender (efpecially towards their upper parts), will be in 

 •* danger of fuffering if the winter fhould prove fevere. 



" This pruning is only to cut down the fhoots to two eyes; and 

 " if, after this is done, the earth be drawn up in a hill about each 

 «* plrnt, it will ftill be a greater defence againfl frofl. 



" At the beginning of March, the ground between the vines fhould 

 «* be well dug, to loofen it, and render it clean : but you Should be 



" careful 



