192 A TREATISE OF 



CHAP. LXIV. 



Of Pruning a Vine the fecond Year after 

 planting. 



FIGURE the 4th reprefents a tree 

 with two branches fuppofed to have 

 been produced from the two buds at A and 

 B in Fig. 3. but they ought to be nailed 

 more upright in fummer than they appear 

 in the plate. 



Fig. 5. is a reprefentation of the fourth 

 cut and nailed in winter after the method 

 I praftife, with no other buds left on 

 but thofe at A, B, C, D, E, tho* there were 

 feveral others at the lower end of the item 

 which are taken off, and feme likewife 

 from the under fide of the branch A and B. 



Obferve, thefe two buds at A and B are 

 in fuch places, as that the flioots proceed- 

 ing from them may be nailed upright with- 

 out being too near each other, and that at 

 A may probably produce fruit, but thofe 

 buds proceeding from the lower end of a 

 branch feldom produce prolific flioots ; for 

 which reafon, I take them all off, except 

 I one 



