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CULTIVATION of the VINE. 



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For a well regulated vineyard refemblesa fine regiment un- 

 der proper and exad difcipline. If fome of your vines 

 prove weak the firft fummer, and do not recover ftrength 



the fecond fummer, though manured and cultivated well, 

 root ihem out, for they very feldom are worth raifing; and 

 plant healthy vines in their ftead, out of your nurfery; fo 

 fhall you have a healthy, flourifhing and well conftituted 

 vineyard. 



By this time you fee the neceflity of having a fupply of 

 young vines from a nurfery, a circumftance that is by no 

 means to be negled:ed. 



In digging up the plants from your nurfery, be careful to 

 take them up without wounding or bruifing the roots, and 

 having a pail or fmall tub, half full of rich dung water, 

 put the plants, with the roots d(nvn, into that, fo fliall 

 they be prelerved from the Sun and drying winds, which 

 would foon parch and dry up thefe young tender roots and- 

 kill the vine. When you have dug up about a dozen or 

 twenty plants, then proceed to planting, which muft be 

 done in the following manner. Your holes being dug deep 

 enough and fufficiently wide, for the roots to befpread in 

 at full length, throw in fome loofe earthy and fpread it 

 over the bottom of the hole, and fix in your plant near 

 the flake, fo high that the little branches rife an inch or 

 two above the furface of the grounds The roots, you^ 

 will perceive, for the moft part grow in rows, one above^ 

 another. The upper roots of all, which are called the: 

 day roots, muft be cut away; the under roots of all muft/ 

 then be fpread at full length, and covered with earth, then 

 the next muft be fcrved in the fame manner, and foon till 

 ail be regularly extended and covered. This is purfuing 

 of nature, which in thefc cafes is generally the beft direc- 

 tor. 80 fliall the earth be well fettled about the roots, and 

 the vines in the fpring will grow and flourijh, as if they 

 had not been moved or tranfplanted. If a fervant, or even 

 a gardener be left to manage this v;ork, they will be apt, 

 ae I have often feen, to fet the plant in the hole, in a care- 



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