aio ON VINES. 



by flicking a few flakes round, and fluff- 

 ing flraw between the vacancies. 



As the plants advance in height they 

 will pufh out fide- branches at the eyes, 

 which mufl be conflantly picked off as 

 they grow ; but not in the common me- 

 thod, which is to break them off clofe to 

 the eye : they mufl be pinched off a joint 

 above the eye, and then they will pufh 

 again at that place, and never hurt the 

 bud that is to remain for next year's fhoot, 



WHEN they are taken off clofe to the 

 bud, it often pufhes, and that joint is loft, 

 which, if near the bottom, is of bad con- 

 fequence ; and although it does not pufh, 

 there often comes one, fometimes two 

 fide-branches jufl by the eye, which weak- 

 ens it greatly, and renders the place very 

 unfightly. 



THIS mould be obferved in taking 

 off the fide-fhoots of vines of all ages, 

 that they pufh again much fooner when 



they 



