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Vines have ever been found to thrive best 

 on the banks of rivers, or where their roots 

 can draw moisture in abundance. 



The scripture often makes the remark ; 

 " It was planted in a good soil by great 

 waters, that it might bring forth branches, 

 and that it might bring forth fruit, that it 

 might be a goodly vine/' (Ezekiel, c. xvii. v. 8.) 



" Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, 

 planted by the waters : she was fruitful and 

 full of branches, by reason of many waters." 

 (Ezekiel, c. xix. v. 10.) 



It hath been stated, that the blood of 

 animals, applied about the roots, greatly nou- 

 rishes the vine : this must be owing to the 

 quantity of saline particles which it contains. 



Mr. Daws, of Slough, near Windsor, has 

 made the experiment of painting one half 

 of a wall black, that was covered with a 

 vine, and leaving the other half in it's com- 

 mon state. That part of the vine which 

 covered the black wall, ripened the grapes 

 earlier, and yielded about three times the 

 weight of fruit that the other half produced. 



Gentlemen, who prune their own vines, 

 should observe, that the fruit is always pro- 

 duced upon the shoots of thp same year, 

 which are thrown out of the buds of the last 

 year's shoots; and that it is not the old 



