4o8 OFTHECULTURE Part III. 



I may perhaps be thought not to enlarge enough on fo important 

 a lubjed: as this. It will, I confefs, require being treated more 

 fully hereafter: but in the mean time I beg the reader to confider, 

 that I am now relating only the fuccefs of my firll: trials. 



SECT. X. 



Good effeBs of this culture proved by the produce of a bed of vines 

 forty perches long, planted in 1752. 



T Obferved, in the beginning of this article, that every culture of 

 ■■■ the vine is performed with much greater eafe and expedition in 

 vineyards laid out in beds, than in thofe which are planted all over, 

 but at random. The very fituation of the vines planted regularly in 

 beds, is fufficient to fhew with what eafe every thing that they re- 

 quire maybe done, and that they muft, of courfe, be well cultivated 

 ,fin every refpeft. 



In the next place, the pruning of the vine, and the firfl: flirring 

 of the earth before winter, are done at a time when the bufinefs of 

 the field is over, and hufbandmen are, in fome meafure, un-occupied. 

 That time, which would otherwife be in a manner loft, may now 

 be employed to very great advantage} and in confequence of their 

 being advanced in their works, before the coming on of winter, in- 

 ftead of being over loaded in the fpring, by a multitude of things to 

 be done at that time, they will have ample leifure to attend properly, 

 and without being hurried, to every branch of culture that a farm 

 requires. 



The effedt of our culture has been extremely vifible. The new 

 vines have grown fo prodigioufly, that they now greatly furpafs thofe 

 of the old vineyard, which they were part of: the flioots too are 

 thicker and longer, and the bunches of grapes bigger and in greater 

 number. 



When I firft began to apply the principles of the new huibandry 

 to the culture of the vine, I hoped indeed that the great fruitfulnefs 

 of a fmaller number of plants, might compenfate for the lofs of 

 thofe I was obliged to retrench : but I was agreeably furprifed to 

 find all the vines of my bed loaded with an equal quantity of 

 grapes. 



Tho' my conjedlure was founded on principles which I knew to 

 be true, I was ftill farther confirmed in my opinion by an obfeiva- 



tion 



