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be filled with crude nourishment, and rendered of much less value 

 for making good wine, as well as unpalatable. 



Towards the latter end of the month, the extremities of the fruit- 

 bearing shoots may be nipped oft', to check the too great luxuriancy 

 of their growth, and to afford the bunches of grapes a greater por- 

 tion of nourishment; but this ought not to be done too close to the 

 fruit, as it would check the free ascent of the juices into those 

 branches, by depriving them of the means of discharging such a 

 portion thereof as is not convertible into wood or fruit: and more- 

 over, though the fruit might by this means be swelled to a greater 

 size, it would be more replete with watery particles, and less with 

 that refined saccharine juice so pleasing to the palate, and so neces- 

 sary for the making of good wine. 



Such shoots as are intended to be cut down in the pruning season, 

 for next year's fruiting, are by no means to be topped, but should 

 be suffered to grow at full length, taking care to keep them con- 

 stantly divested of any side branches, which ought always to be 

 rubbed off as they appear. Were those to be topped at this season, 

 it would force out at an untimely period, many of the flower-buds 

 which nature had designed for the ensuing year, and, consequently, 

 at that time render the vines barren and unproductive. 



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Budding or Inoculating. 



The budding or inoculating of cherries and plums, and all such 

 other trees and shrubs as are subject to become bark-bound in 

 autumn, is generally commenced in the middle states about the 

 fifteenth of this month, earlier or later, according to the season or 

 the quantity to be budded; these and others of the like nature 

 should now be attended to, as they seldom work freely after the 

 twenty-fifth of July. But this you may always easily know by 

 trying the buds, and when they readily part from the wood, and 

 also the bark of the stock rises or separates freely, then the work 

 may be done. 



But let it be particularly remarked, that every kind of tree or 

 shrub that makes new autumn shoots, or that continues in a free 

 growth, or flow (if sap, should be budded either in August or before 

 the twentieth of September, according as each kind is early or late 

 in ripening its wood, that is, to bud each sort before it becomes 

 bark-bound; and likewise observe that all those kinds which are 

 likely to become bark-bound early in autumn ought to be budded 

 in this month, while the juice Hows freely in the stocks and buds. 



If trees or shrubs arc inoculated in the early part of this month, 

 whose nature it is to take a second growth in autumn, the buds 



