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will be their flavour when ripe. To lay down any rule, 

 as to the number of berries that should be cut out of 

 any bunch of a given weight, is impracticable. I have 

 many times found, that of bunches of the Black 

 Hamburgh grape, with the berries well set, I have, 

 from first to last, cut out four out of every Jive ; while 

 on other bunches of the same sort having their berries 

 not so thickly set, the diminution has been about three 

 out of five, and sometimes not more than two out of 

 that number. The best general rule that can be given 

 is, that the berries during the whole period of their 

 growth, until after they have made their last swell, 

 must never be suffered to cluster, or to press the sides 

 of each other. 



August 19th. Continue to nail the future bearing- 

 shoots firmly, and keep in constant check all tendrils, 

 and lateral and succession shoots, throughout the re- 

 maining part of the season. The growth of these 

 will now begin to decrease in vigour, in consequence 

 of the fluids in the vessels of the plant being partially 

 diverted in their course, and attracted to the fruit. 



Keep the border clear of weeds, and its surface 

 loose and open, and suffer nothing to be on it, or near 

 it, that can in the slightest degree intercept the rays of 

 the sun. Solar heat is now the grand desideratum. 



If the atmosphere be dry and arid, or if the weather 

 be windy, evaporation will proceed at a prodigious 

 rate, and unless the nights be still and serene, and the 

 dews very copious, the balance betwixt absorption and 

 evaporation will be destroyed. To supply the waste, 

 therefore, that will be thus occasioned in the juices of 

 the vine during this critical period, let the foliage and 

 fruit be now and then watered after sunset, and also the 

 border, in addition to the application of liquid manure 

 to the latter as before directed. The atmosphere contig- 

 uous to the vine will be thereby rendered humid, and 



