ON VINES; 271 



when in proper order for the Pines, la 

 that the moifture, in dull weather, 's not 

 dried up for feveral days : when the gripes 

 are near ripe, in fuch weather they often 

 rot, if they are clofe in the clutter. 



WHEN the grapes grow very dole, the 

 clufters mould be thinned when they are 

 very young, and thofe left will grow much 

 larger, and not he fo liable to rot. The 

 large forts that hang loofe are the propereft 

 for Pine-ftoves. This work mould be per- 

 formed in the morning, when there is ail 

 appearance of a fine day, that the wounds 

 may be dried before night by the heat of 

 the fun. This mould be performed with 

 fharp-pointed fciflors, and great care taken 

 not to wound any of the berries that are left. 



THOSE that ufe covers for their Pine- 

 ftoves are in no great danger of having 

 their grapes' hurt by frofls ; but they are 

 liable to be fcorched by the fun when they 

 are clofe to the rafters. The covering of 

 jftoves is attended with many mconvenien- 

 eies, fuch as breaking of glafs in high 



winds, 



