On the Cultivation of the Vine, 



In the third February cutting, three eyes upon each 

 shoot may be left on, and not more, however strong 

 the shoots may be. From this time forward all the 

 side branches from the shoots of the year are to be 

 rubbed off; taking great care not to injure the leaf 

 from whence they spring, which is the nurse of the bud 

 at the root of its stem. 



At the fourth time of cutting the vine, and from 

 ihat time forward, it may be cut about the last of Oc- 

 tober, four eyes on each shoot may be left ; and at the 

 fifth cutting five eyes on each shoot may be left on, 

 but more than five eyes on a shoot, ought never to be 

 left on, even in the most vigorous state of growth, at 

 any age of the vine : for, however pleasing the increase 

 for the year may be, the injury thereby done to the 

 vine, will be seen and lamented in the following, and 

 probably many succeeding years. 



If it ]:»e enquired why a single eye is recommended, 

 rather than a cutting of sixteen inches long, it is repli- 

 ed, that roots shooting from a single eye, are exclusive- 

 ly from itself, are much the strongest, and strike more 

 directly downward ; the shoot from it has less pith in 

 it, the wood is firmer and shorter jointed, and comes 

 sooner into full bearing ; and appears to be much the 

 most healthy vine. And to these important advanta- 

 ges may be truly added, that a thousand plants, fit to 

 set out, may be raised from the single eye with less la- 

 bour and within less space, either in a hot bed, or in 

 the open ground, than a hundred plants can be raised 

 from long cuttings ; which have not, that I know of, 

 one single advantage in their favour : and, in a new 



