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high, and to carry a few clufters on each 

 branch, which no ways anfwers clothing 

 a wall of ten or twelve feet high from top 

 to bottom ; the wood, foliage, and fruit 

 muft be fupported to bring them to perfec- 

 tion ; and I have found, by long practice, 

 that Vines thrive, and carry large and good- 

 flavoured fruit, when planted in borders 

 prepared as here directed. 



I HAVE tried many compofitions, and 

 all hard (luffs, fuch as gravel, rubbifh, &c. 

 and they never produced fb good-flavoured 

 fruit. I have been informed that all the 

 vineyards round Rome are on a fine rich 

 deep loam, and are manured with the ames 

 and the cleanings of the ftreets, and that 

 they produce the beft of eating grapes. It 

 from this hint I firft began to alter the 

 preparation of the borders for Vines, 

 which has been crowned with many years 

 fuccefs. 



IF the ground is a hard gravel, add four 



|oads of rotten dung to fixteen loads of 



P 3 good 



