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CULTIVATION of the VINE. 



with exccffive heats- In the northern colonies, the vines 

 fhould be planted on the fouth fide of the flakes, for the 

 fake of the Sun : In the fouthern colonies, they fhould be 

 planted on the north fide to avoid too great heat. The 

 upper eye only fhould flioot out branches, from which the 

 head of the vine is formed. If any fhoots fhould rife from 

 below, which fometimes is the cafe, the fooner they are re- 

 moved the better, thefc are called fuckers, and very much 

 exhauft the vine. And thus you proceed till all be finifhed. 

 When your vines are all planted, if you have any cut- 

 tings remaining, plant them in a nurfery or along the north 

 fide of your flakes, for you will have occafion for them, 

 as many of your vines will mifcarry, and the fooner their 

 places are fupplyed the better. If fome of your vuies do 

 not flioot till July, do not give them up, they may grow 

 notwithflanding. I have had many, that have not fliot till 



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Augufl, and yet have done well. 



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you that, the filling up all the vacancies, where the vines 

 have failed or mifcarried, is abfolutely neccffary to be done 

 as foon as poffible, either the fall after the vines were 

 planted, with plants, if you have any growing in your 

 nurfery, which are befl planted as foon as the leaf is fal- 

 len; or the next fpring, with cuttings, which is the befl fea- 

 fonfor planting them; for the latter having no root fuffer 

 greatly in the winter feafon, and if planted in the fall, moft 

 of them perifh. If the vacancies fhould by any means be 

 negledcd for three or four years, you will find it very 

 difficult to raife thrifty and flourifhing vines in mch places 

 afterward; becaufe by this time, the neighbouring vines 

 have fhot! their roots d^ll round the fpot, where the young 

 vine is to be planted, and will fo draw away the nourifh- 

 ment, and entangle the fmall tender roots, that firtl fhoot 

 from it, that it will not be able to fhoot foryvard and flou- 

 rifh. Some, for this reafon, plant two cuttings in a hole, 

 leaflone fliould mifcarry. To this the chief objedion is, 

 that hereby the regularity and uniformity of your vineyard 

 is hurt, many of the vines ilanding out of rank and file. 



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