CULTIV ATIOiN! of the VINE. 



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will triumph in his turn, with greater reafon, and with 



much greater advantages. • • , rn 



The fourth year when you trim your vmes m the tall, 

 you may cut the arms down to one good bud each, inftead 

 of taking them clean away, for the vines being yet young 

 and low, thele two buds will in a manner become part 

 of the fhouklers, being fo near them; thefe will bearfruit 

 the next, which is the fifth year; and then you can fave 

 the two lower buds, that grew on the branches that fprung 

 from the Ihoulder, for branches of referve, by taking 

 away the fruit as foon as they appear, and thefe will bear 

 fruit the year after; fo Ihall you have four branches bearing 

 fruit the fifth year, which is quite fufficient. 



The fixth year you may have three good buds on each 

 branch for bearing fruit, and the feventh year you may 

 have four buds on each branch, which will make eight 



bearing branches, which are thought by the beft judges 

 to be quite fufficient for the ftrongeft vines, if you mean 

 to make good wine; and to this number vignerons are 



generally confined. 



Vines that are defigned for efpaliers, muft be planted 

 further afunder than thofe, that are intended for flakes; 

 for as they rife much higher with the ftem, they require 

 more nourifhment, and more room to extend their roots; 

 ten feet is by no means too much : twelve would be better : 

 Suetonius, a learned man, well known to men of letters, 

 made this remark as he travelled through the wine coun- 

 tries, that the farther vines w^erc planted from each other, 

 the better he found the wine. 



One general rule is neccffary to be laid down, ;in order 

 to give young vine-drefTers, a clear idea of the nature and 

 manner of irimming vines, which is very apt to puzzle 

 young beginners; know then, that the young wood that 

 grew this" year, muft be preferved for bearing fruit the 

 next year, and thofe branches, that did not bear fruit, are 

 better for the purpofe, than thofe that did bearfruit; and 

 for this reafon, you are above direded to flrike off, with 

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