O N V I N E S. 



I FOUND by the experience of many years 

 that moderate fires, which would bring the 

 fruit to perfection in September, are a great 

 advantage to young vines, as they ripen the 

 wood, and make them fit for pruning early 

 in autumn. 



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YOUNG plants that are vigorous grow 

 much longer than old ones, and when they 

 have no affiftance they are not fit to cut 

 till late in the feafon, which is of very bad 

 confequence to them ; for they fhould not 

 be pruned at a time when there is a pro- 

 bability of froft, but it mould not be de- 

 ferred till fpring ; for although they are 

 late in mooting, if they are pruned any 

 time in March, which is as foon as it can 

 be done with fafety, and at that time they 

 have no appearance of vegetation, yet as 

 foon as they begin to pufh (and fometimes 

 before) they will bleed much, although 

 every gardener knows how to flop their 

 bleeding, and may prevent their receiving 

 any damage ; yet their bleeding, when 

 put in fpring, fhews evidently it is wrong, 



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