FRUIT-TREES. ao; 



C H A P. LXXI. 



Of Thinning of Grapes. 



IT is as proper to thin grapes when 

 there is too great a quantity as any 

 other fruit ; which may be done either by 

 taking off the bunches only, or the bran- 

 ches with the fruit upon them : as foon as 

 the bloflbms are fhed, it may eafily be dif- 

 covered which are likely to make the hand- 

 fomefi: and largeft bunches ^ and when 

 there are two bunches upon one fhoot, the 

 worft Ihould be always taken off, provid- 

 ed the grapes are of a large fort, fuch as 

 the St. Peters, Lombardy, Tokay grape, 

 &c. and when this way of thinning is not 

 fufficient, then fome of the branches mull 

 be cut away according as there is a ne- 

 ceffity. 



But the fmaller, or midling iized bun- 

 ches of grapes muft always be thinned, by 

 taking off branches where they are too 

 near one another ^ for two bunches upon 

 one ftrong branch will be as well tailed as 

 if there was but one. 



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