i96 A TREATISE OF 



CHAP. LXVL 



The Pruning of a Vine that is brought to 

 bearing, and is in a regular Shape. 



THE ordering of young vines having 

 been fufficiently treated of, I v^ill now 

 give direftions for managing them when 

 they are brought to bear. 



The fide A in Fig. 7. reprefents the 

 branches nailed up in the fummer, as when 

 the fruit is upon them 5 the other fide fliews 

 how the vine muft be cut and nailed in the 

 winter, with no buds upon the branches, 

 but in places where flioots are required -, 

 and when the branches have been kept in 

 proper order the fummer before, then either 

 all, or moft of the buds left on, will pro- 

 duce bearing branches ; for all thofe near- 

 eft the ftem, and on the under fides of the 

 branches are taken off with the point of a 

 ftarp knife, when the branches were naird 

 up in the winter, for then it is known Vv^hat 

 diftance the next year's fhobts ought to be 

 from one another ; and I leave buds in no 

 other places but Vvhere (hoots are defired, 



but 



