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pruning here is very different from that in 

 the Grape-houfe. Here, it is impoflible to 

 bring on vegetation in that flow and regu- 

 lar manner which may be done in the 

 Grape-houfe ; and, confequently, were the 

 fhoots to be laid in at as great lengths, 

 they would only break, perhaps, a few 

 eyes at the extremities, and the remaining 

 parts would remain naked. 



This I found, from experience, to be 

 the cafe ; although it did -not happen for 

 the fir ft three or four years, owing to the 

 youth and vigour .of the plants : but, when 

 they had, in fome meafure, exhaufted 

 themfelves by bearing a few crops, thejr 

 began to break their buds in the manner 

 above ftated. I therefore made it a prac- 

 tice to train them only to five or fix feet 

 in Summer, and to fhorten them down to 

 one or two, m the pruning feafon ^ by 

 which treatment they generally broke all 

 their eyes, and produced plentiful crops of 

 fruit. 



In one houfe, I tried, for two feafons, to 

 produce crops by laterals j but found that 

 method attended with more inconveniency 

 than the above, from the difficulty of pro- 

 curing 



