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After having completed your fall pruning, if your vines 

 are of the more delicate kinds, you can proceed to cover 

 them as hereafter directed; but if they are of the hardy 

 description, they will need no farther attention till the 

 spring. 



At the opening of the second season, the young vines 

 should have the earth carefully loosened around them, but 

 not so as to injure the roots. During the second summer, 

 there will be no further attention necessary, but to keep 

 down the lateral shoots ; in doing which, you should proceed 

 thus : Having left two of the most promising shoots, and 

 rubbed off all the others, continue to examine the vines 

 every two or three weeks, and carefully prune off all lateral 

 shoots whatever, throughout the season ; in doing which, I 

 have found it of advantage, where the lateral shoot was 

 strong, to leave the first joint remaining, that it may take off 

 the superfluous sap, and prevent the bursting of the main 

 bud, which should not push out till the ensuing season. 

 These single joints thus left remaining, can be altogether 

 taken off at the final pruning in autumn. This course will 

 bring you to the conclusion of the second season, when* in. 

 October or November, you should proceed to prune them 

 down, as. foJk>wai To the very strong ones, I would leave 

 eight buds; to those less so, six ; and, to those which still 

 seem quite weak, from three to four buds, according to your 

 own judgment on the snbject. The third and subsequent 

 years, no further directions are necessary, than to prune them 

 frequently and sufficiently, so as to stop, at all times, the la- 

 teral branches, where they are calculated to impoverish the 

 vine without any manifest advantage ; in a word, to force by 

 art into the main branches of the vines that sap which, with- 

 out such aid, would be lost in superfluous, weak, and use- 

 less branches. It will be seen by tke foregoing directions, 

 that the culture of the vine is in no wise difficult ; for any 

 person of the least information, having a single vine pruned* 

 may, with the greatest ease, pursue the same course, with- 

 out deviation, through a whole vineyard. It is, therefore, a 

 culture, where one head can serve to direct a large number, 

 nd where, after once instructed, no after difficulties need 

 ensue ; and this consideration, in connexion with the pecu- 

 liar situation of the labouring population of the southern 

 states, is calculated to insure success in that quarter. All 

 those desirous of pursuing this culture, may rest assured, 

 that the numerous difficulties which have been thrilled in 



