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tity of fun-fhine; admitting lefs or more 

 every day, unlefs the feverity of frofty 

 winds renders it imprudent to do fo. But, 

 as the Summer advances, be very liberal 

 in this article in ferene weather : it will 

 greatly tend to the ftrengthening of the 

 young (hoots. 



It is a practice with many to uncover 

 their Grape-houfes in Winter. This I never 

 did, not fo much that I difapprove of the 

 pradice, but owing to the expence attend- 

 ing it, not only in removing and putting 

 on, but in breaking the glafles, and wafting 

 the flues ,by fhe extremes of froft and 

 blanching rains. But, my ^method has 

 been to admit an equal and free circula- 

 tion of air, by opening the fafhes alternate- 

 ly at top, bottom, and middle, to the ex- 

 tent of at leaft a third part of the whole 

 covering, and letting them remain fo, day 

 and night ; never ihutting up for any caufe 

 but that of too much wet. 



The fecond feafon, obferve much the 

 fame regulation as above ; and, if fire is 

 applied for the forwarding of the wood, 

 (as hinted in Section VI.) pay due atten- 

 tion at that time, as the fudden breaking 



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