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large as any others, either on the fame 

 vine, or any of the fame kind. 



Fig. 9. is a fhape which fome people 

 turn long branches into without dilbudding, 

 and I have feen them bear much fruit, but 

 the fhoots are at very improper difcances 

 from one another, till part are taken off; 

 and if the buds producing them had been 

 difplaced at the winter pruning, it would 

 have prevented the juices from being wall- 

 fully fpent in forming fuperfluous llioots, 

 whereby the others would confequently 

 have been ftronger. 



C H A P. LXIX. 



General Rules for Pruning a Vine. 



Will here add two or three general rules 

 to be obferved in pruning and nailing. 



When the end of a branch is cut in win- 

 ter, it fnould not be done too near the bud 

 next belov/, but about two inches above. 



Whenever a branch is taken oii", it fnould 



be cut clofe to the part it proceeds from, and 



not left with a fhort ftump, for thefe only 



put out young ufclefs branches, which 



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