268 FRUIT 6ARDEN DISPLAVED. 



proper fhoots in fome regular order, advancing 

 as it were progreffively from the bottom to 

 the top or extremity of the vine, to have all 

 parts \ve!l farnifhed with bearing wood: and 

 all of which referved fhoots mull: be (hortened, 

 pruning the fmaller ones to three or four 

 joints, Itrong ones to five or fix; or occaii- 

 onally, where there is any extenfive vacant 

 fpace of walling, fome particular (hoots may 

 be hft longer in proportion. And in all of 

 which perform the fhorteryng generally about 

 half an inch to an inch above, and behind aa 

 eye or bud, in a clean cut a little Hoping. 



As foon as they are pruned, nail them to 

 the wall, both the old and young branches, 

 in the moft regular order, either horizontally 

 or more or lefs upright, as the fcopeor allotted 

 fpace of walling, &:c. admits, all at equal 

 dilUnces, about fix to eight or ten inches 

 afunder ; or, v. here the fhoots have been left 

 too abundant in pruning, cut out the moft 

 irregular now, to admit of nailing the whole 

 in regular order, as above. 



Any vines trained in efpaliers, or to flakes 

 in the vineyard order, as before obferved in 

 the Summer regulation, ihould alfo have a 

 general Winter pruning, as direfled above 

 for thofe againft walls ; in which generally 

 keep the long advanced naked branches cut 

 down more or lefs, as it may feem expedient, 

 cutting them occafionally to fome lower 

 branches or (hoots, and keep the (hoots in 

 general moderately thin, and (hortened to 

 three or four to five or fix joints, and then 



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