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Fig. 3. reprefents a vine with only two 

 buds, as at A and B5 though there were 

 others lower, yet as two or three of the 

 loweft buds are generally fmall and very 

 near together, they produce only fmall 

 fhoots, for which reafon I think it is 

 better to take them all off, and leave on- 

 ly two higher upon the branch, for they 

 always put out longer fhoots than thofe 

 below. 



I always take one branch off the layer 

 before it is planted -, for if there are but 

 two ftrong fhoots from a vine the firft year 

 after planting, it is fufhcient; and this 

 may reafonably be expefted from the two 

 buds left on at A and B. 



Fig. 2. hath part of both branches left 

 on, and all the buds they produced; but 

 I think thofe that are produced after this 

 manner of fhort cutting are generally weak, 

 and too near one another. 



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