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There are many kinds of grapes men- 

 tioned in the catalogue, which require 

 more than natural heat to ripen them ; but 

 they are pruned like others. I fliall treat 

 of thofe that will bear upon fiandards in 

 another place. 



CHAP. LXXII. 



How to preferve the Bloflbm of Grapes, 

 from being injured by Froft and tod 

 much Wet. 



FROSTS in Mayor Junefpoil many 

 bunches of grapes, and is the chief 

 reafon why- fome berries are fo much 

 fmaller than others on the fame bunch, as 

 may generally be ken in the fweet water 

 kinds, for they bloflbm the earlieft, and 

 confequently fuffer moft from the frofts. 



As the weather is generally dry in fum^ 

 mer, when the nights are frofty, I have 

 found moderate watering very ferviceablcj 

 and that there have been better bunches 

 upon thofe vines which were watered than 

 upon others that were not, tho* of the 

 fame kinds and againft the fame walk 



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