190 The Fruit Garden. [Apr. 



Tills machine is fold by moft of the tin-men and bra- 

 ■aiers in London, and other great towns. 



Propagating Vines, 



Where it was omitted in the preceding month, you 

 may dill plant cuttings of vines, to raife a fupply of new 

 plants. 



For the method of planting them, fee the work of 

 March. 



Vines are alfo propagated by layers, and it is not yet 

 too late to lay them ; obferving, that the one year's fhoots 

 .are the proper parts to lay, laying them three or four 

 inches deep in the earth, together with that part of the 

 branch the fhoots proceed from, leaving about three buds 

 of the young Ihoots out of the ground. 



They will be well rooted by Michaelmas; then they 

 may be feparated from the old plant, and planted where 

 .required. 



Begin the Su??imer-dreJ/ing of Vines. 



Vines, againil v/alls, Ihould be looked over about the 

 latter end of this month ; they will, by that time, have 

 made fome (hoots, and the ufelefs ones fhould bedilpiaced^ 



In looking over the vines, obferve^ at this time, to dif- 

 placc only fuch Ihoots as appear to be abiblutely ufelefs : 

 there generally arifes many fmall fhoots from the old 

 branches ; but thefe fhoots feldom produce grapes or wood 

 proper to bear fruit : therefore let moil: of thefe flioots be 

 rubbed off clofe, except in fuch places where a fupply of 

 new wood is, or will apparently be wanted, which fhould 

 be well attended to ; and leave for the prefent, all the 

 fhoots which arife from the laft year's wood ; but where 

 two fhoots rife from one eye, let the worit be taken away ; 

 for if they were both to be left, one would ftarve the 

 other, and the fruit of neither would be good. 



Let it be obferved, that this dreifing, or difpiacing of 

 ufelefs fhoots, is at this early time, to be performed chiefly 

 with the finger and thumb, rubbing the fhoots off clofe. 



The ufelefs fhoots being cleared away, the ufeful ones, 

 when of a due length, fhould be trained clofe to the wall, 

 in a regular manner, fo that each may equally enjoy the 

 advantage of the fun and air, to promote its growth, to- 

 gether with th^t of the fruit. 



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