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 bove the fruit, to forward and ftrengthen 

 its growth j clearing off all lateral twigs, 

 and ufelefs fuperfluous (hoots, and train- 

 ing the others clofe to the (lakes •, in Win- 

 ter pruning, felect fix, eight, or ten of 

 the flrongeft, bed-placed young (hoots of 

 lafc Summer on each plant, for next year's 

 bearing, pruning out the fuperabundancy, 

 as in the garden Vines, and fhoneningthe 

 refer ved (hoots % the ftrongeft ones cut 

 to four or five joints, and the weaker 

 prune to three eyes each > then faflen 

 them along regularly to the flakes, an 

 equal number to the right and lefr, ten 

 or twelve inches afunder ; thofe next the 

 ftem may be trained nearly upright, but 

 the lower (Loots mould be extended 

 more horizontally, 



ILvcry Spring, after Winter pruning 



and 



