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length ftiould be annually provided on the 

 outfide, and the old branches cut off. 



Tho' grapes ripen earher, by this method 

 than any other I know of, yet the finiit is 

 never fo well flavoured as thofe wdiich 

 have the benefit of the dews. 



Some walls are built about ten or twelve 

 feet high, with funnels thro' which the heat 

 is conveyed to all parts, from fires made 

 on the north fide j and have on the fouth 

 fide glafiTes, which reach from the top to 

 the out-fide of a border eight or ten feet 

 broad. 



Thefe borders are very ferviceable to 

 raife early crops of kitchen vegetables up- 

 on, but vines or other fruit-trees, gene- 

 rally become weak, if they are forc'd two 

 years together. 



There have been feveral other forts of 

 walls made ufe of for this purpofe -, fome 

 with their fronts like one fide of a houfe^ 

 roof, upon which the rays of the fun dart 

 lefs oblique, than upon walls that ftand 

 perpendicular to the horizon ; but thefe 

 bevel fronts are attended with a great dif- 

 advantage, for the wet lodges upon and 

 decays the fruif. 



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