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to one or two good buds each, which are to produce young wood for 

 the next year's bearing, as those left to bear this season must be cut 

 down next, in order to produce a succession of young wood ; and so 

 continue in their management from year to year. 



When you meet with old vines which have been neglected, and 

 having a great quantity of naked wood, as is generally the case, cut 

 them down near to the ground, and they will not fail to produce you 

 plenty of young wood, which you can train to your liking, but you 

 will have no fruit for that year. Or you may cut out every other 

 branch, leaving the old ones to produce fruit that season ; but these 

 must be cut down the next year in order to produce young wood, 

 and a well furnished tree. 



When arbors are to be formed of grape-vines, the shade being as 

 much an object as the fruit, you are to train them so as to cover the 

 place handsomely, and at the same time to produce as much and as 

 good fruit as possible, by not permitting the leading branches or 

 shoots to crowd together, but to spread evenly and thin over the 

 whole place: this must be done by judicious pruning and careful 

 training, always bearing in mind the preceding general directions. 



For the methods of propagating and planting grape-vines, and the 

 various kinds thereof, see the Vineyard in March. 



SOUTHERN STATES. r ^ 



This will be a principal time for propagating vines by cuttings, 

 layers, &c., and planting vineyards in most of the southern States : 

 for the methods of doing which, see the Vineyard in March. 



THE NURSERY. 



The various instructions given in the course of this month, 

 for the nursery, as far as they relate to work which is to be done in 

 the open ground, are on the presumption that the severe winter frosts, 

 have, towards the end of the month, disappeared, and that the ground 

 at that time is in a fit state for cultivation ; at least, sufficiently so 

 for the reception of plants of a very hardy nature, and such as, if 

 planted, could receive no injury whatever from any subsequent frost 

 or severity of weather, and that will succeed better by taking the 

 earliest possible advantage of the season : moreover, it is the better 

 way to have as much of your business done at as early a period as 

 possible, the better to enable you to meet the great pressure, which, 

 with respect to planting, sowing, grafting, &c. &c., must be attended 

 to in March. 



But when the weather in the latter end of this month is severe, or 

 the ground bound up by frost, there is no alternative but to defer the 

 business till the arrival of a more favorable period. 



