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joints. You see there is a mark for this cut, at a, 

 fig. 1. During summer eight shoots will come, 

 and, as they proceed on, they must be tied with 

 matting, or something soft, to the bars. The 

 whole vine, both ways included, is supposed to 

 go 16 feet; but, if your tillage be good, it will go 

 much further, and then the ends must be cut off 

 in winter. Now, then, winter presents you your 

 vine as in Jig. 2-.; and now you must prune, 

 which is the all-important part of the business. 

 Observe, and bear in mind, that little or no fruit 

 ever comes on a grape-vine, except on young 

 shoots that come out of wood of the last year. 

 All the four last year's shoots that you find in^,*. 2, 

 would send out bearers ; but if you suffer that 

 you will have a great parcel of small wood, and 

 little or no fruit next year. Therefore, cut off 4 

 of the last year's shoots, as at b. (Fig. 3.J leav- 

 ing only one bud. The four other shoots will 

 send out a shoot from every one. of their buds, and 

 if the vine be strong, there will be two bunches 

 of grapes on each of these young shoots ; and, 

 as the last year's shoots are supposed to be each 

 8 feet long, and as there generally is a bud at, or 

 about, every half foot, every last year's shoot 

 will produce 32 bunches of grapes; every vine 

 128 bunches ; and the 8 vines 512; and, possibly, 

 nay, probably, so many pounds of grapes ! Is 

 this incredible ? Take, then, this well known 

 fact, that there is a grape vine, a single vine, with 

 only one stem, in the King of England's Gar- 

 dens at his palace of Hampton Court, which has, 

 for, perhaps, half a century, produced on an 

 average, annually, a t&n of grapes ; that is to 

 say 2,240 pounds, Avoirdupois weight, That 

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