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CULTIVATION of the VINE. 



up along fuch fteep grounds. In iliort, there would be 

 no fuch thing as raifing vineyards on fuch grounds, were 

 it not for rocks and flones. For as it is neceflary to keep 

 the foil loofe and mellow, it would all wafli away with 

 hard rains, if not prevented by forming a kind of rough 

 wall of flones along the lower fide of each row of vines 

 ain, fuch lands are cheap, being unfit for other pur 



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pofes, and generally yielding but little timber or grais, 

 They may therefore be purchafed by poor people, who 

 could not afford to go to the price of good land, Laftly, 

 thefe fteep hills and mountains always yield the richeit 

 wines, the value and price of which will compenfate for 

 any extraordinary labour. 



If the ground be worn and out of heart, it muft be re- 

 newed and helped with dung, with frefh mould, with 

 creek mud, with the rich foil that lodges along the fides 

 of brooks or rivers, or that fettles in low places at the 

 foot of hills or mountains, or by foddering cattle andfl^eep 

 upon it with good ftore of draw, fait hay, or coru-ftalks 

 &c, or by penning fuch cattle upon it and plowing all un 

 der it as deep as may be, till all be made fufficiently rich, 

 or by any other method, that fliall bcft fuit the owner. 



If your ground be ftiff, it may be mended by good ftore 

 of fand, aOies, foot, the rubbifh and morterof old build- 

 well pounded, efpccially if fuch morter be made of 



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lime and fand, by the duft and fraall coal of coal kilns, 

 and the earth, that they are covered with when they arc 

 burnt, fea fand or fine gravel, and good ftore of fowl's 

 dun<'- and fhccp's dung, or the old dung of neat cattle. 



After your ground is brought into good Iieart, and has 

 been deep ploughed or dug and well harrowed, fo as to be 

 quite mellow, it muft. be well fecured with a good clofe 

 fence, fuch as is fit to turn rambling boys, as well as cat- 

 tle and hogs, for on this depends the fuccefs of the whole. 



The next ftep to be taken, is to provide a fufficient 

 flock of vine cuttings, not only enough to plant the vine- 

 yard, but a fmall nurfery too. If thefe cannot be had all 



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