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upon the borders, which is to be carefully avoided ; and 

 as at each extremity of this framing, there will be an 

 angular fpace from the glaffes to the wall, thefe will ad- 

 mit of glazed doors, which are to be well fitted, fo as to 

 exclude all air, but may be opened occafionally to admit 

 air, particularly when the wind beats too violently on the 

 front of the frame — And here I cannot omit to mention 

 one particular with refpeft to Vines upon hot-walls, that 

 they fhould always be planted by themfelves. 



You are to obferve, that if the fires for the Vines are 

 lighted in the fecond week in February^ the Vines will 

 begin to fhoot the latter end of March. The degree of 

 heat mud be regulated by one of Mr. Foixjler"'?, or Mr. 

 Co/f's botanical thermometers, wherein the fpirit (houid 

 never be raifed higher than five degrees above the point 

 Temperate, and if it is kept to Temperate, or five de- 

 grees below it, there will be a fufF^ciency of heat ; for 

 liiould you warm the air more, it will draw the fhoots too 

 much, and difappoint you of a good crop : the fires fhould 

 not be continued when the fun ihines, but only in cold 

 cloudy days : a moderate fire made every evening, and 

 continued till ten or eleven o'clock at night, will heat 

 the wall and warm the air fufficiently. 



When the Vines begin to fhoot, they muil be often 

 looked over, to rub ofF all danglers, and to faflen the new 

 fhools to the trelace. When the Vines are in bloffom, 

 watch all opportunities to give them air, for upon the good 

 management at this '.eafon entirely depends your crop of 

 grapes, and particularly obferve to give water to the border 

 of the hot- walls, in the afternoons, after the fun is off the 

 frames, with water that has flood within the frames 24 

 hours before you ufe it. It is then proper, gently to wa- 

 ter the ground in the borders v.here the Vines grow, which 

 ■vv-ill, efpecially at I'lis time, be of g'cat fervice to them. 

 Thefe fhoofs fhould be carefully handled, and laid, as 

 near as pofTihlc, at equal dil^ances, that they may enjoy 

 all the benefits of fun and air, without which they will 

 not thrive. When the grapes are fully formed, the (hocts 

 fhould be flopped at the fecond or thiid joint above the 

 fruit, that they may be nourifhcd, and no ufeleGi flioots 

 he encotiraged ; which, in forced Vines, (as I faid before) 

 are ufclefs, until thofe years wherein tlie Vines rcfl to re- 

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