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Take urine or brine that is equally im- 

 pregnated with falts, and mix therewith 

 the fame quantity of water, and pour upon 

 the roots of a large vine two quarts every 

 other night, and fo in proportion for 

 thofe.that are younger, and of a lefs fize ; 

 this muft be done on the top of the bor- 

 der as near the ftem as poflible, without 

 touching it 5 and wall be of great fervice 

 any time in fummer, when the earth is 

 dry, but in wet feafons lay upon the bor- 

 ders once in a month, either lime, aflies, 

 or foot, as direded in the Ipring after cut- 

 ting. 



I have alfo known cold rains to be pre- 

 judicial to the bloiToms of grapes, and to 

 guard againft it and alfo frolls, I have put 

 the bunches of bloflbms at their firft ap- 

 pearance into bags of crape, which I have 

 found of great fervice, for I have had 

 much better bunches in them than the 

 others upon the fame vine : befides they 

 were earlier ripe, and not damaged by 

 flies. 



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