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fruit and Vines, at the beginning of the 

 year to lay fome fhort grafs clofe to the 

 wall, four feet broad and two inches thick. 

 This will keep them moift after watering, 

 and prevent the ground from cracking, 

 which frequent watering occafions ; for if 

 it cracks, the roots of the Vines being 

 near the furface of the ground, it would 

 deftroy all the fmall fibrous roots, and 

 greatly damage the fruit, and retard their 

 growth, 







WHEN the grapes are all mewn, and the 



next year's wood fixed on, if there are any 

 ihoots that have no fruit, pull them ofF. 

 If they come clean off (as they fhould) 

 they will leave a fmall hole in the old 

 wood, which fhould be immediately filled 

 xip with worked clay ; for very foon after 

 the moot is pulled off it begins to bleed ^ 

 after which it will be difficult to get the 

 clay to flick ; if it bleeds, it will hurt 

 all the fruit on that branch, and greatly 

 weaken the Vine. 



