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vines ; for thefe fruit will not attain any tole- 

 rable pcrfedlon in this country without that 

 aid ; and fometimes in unfavourable feafons, 

 and cold wet Autumns, they, even with the 

 affifiance of the beft walls, ripen but indiffe- 

 rently, and lome not at all with any tolerable 

 flavour : and, as they require all pofiible be- 

 nefit of rhe fun to forward their ripening, 

 great .attention is necefTary, in order to Udia 

 the vines in great regularity every Summer, 

 by tlmeoufly clearing away all ufelefs and 

 fuperfluous flioots of the year, and the others 

 kept trained clofe to the wall, to admit all 

 poffible advantage of the fun; otherwife the 

 grapes will not ripen eFedually. 



Vines, in t.-eir mode of bearing, always 

 produce ihe grapes on the young fhoots of the 

 fame year, arifmg from thofe of the year be- 

 fore. Never any immediate bearers come di- 

 redly from the old wood, fo that, as the year 

 old Ihoots only are the immediate parent 

 bearers of each Summer, /. e. thofe of laft 

 Sum.mer producing many young llioots the 

 year following, and thefe new flioots produced 

 immediately from the laft year's wood, and 

 no other, furnifh the graphs the fame year, 

 appearing generally in April and May, &c. 

 anfing immediately from the eyes of the faid 

 young fhoots, in fmall cluiiers of minute blof- 

 fom buds, containing the fruit in embrio, as 

 before' obferved, advancing iiril inclofed in 

 the bufi m of the young leaves, encreafinj^ in 

 iize, flowering and fe:fing the fruit in May 

 and June, in oblong bunches of numerous 



berries. 



