4> 



8 



226 



CULTIVATION of the VINE, 



cond time, and although th»ey appear quite dry, yet they 

 trample them over fo long that the very hufks feem to 

 diffolve into wine, this they prefs a fecond time, and this 

 is laid by for the richeil Madeira whie; which in other 

 countries is daflied with water and made into a thin wine 

 for common ufe. 



If you mean to have plenty of grapes, your vineyard 

 muft be \Aeil dun^^ed every three years, but hot dungmuft 

 not be thrown near the ilock of the vine; poor people 

 who cannot come at fo great a quantity of dung at a time, 



may dung one third of their vineyard every year; I fhali 

 now take notice of the different foils and dungs that are 

 beft and fit for vineyards; a vineyard planted on a piece 

 of good ftrong new grovmd needs no dung the firft (even 

 years. The beft manure for a vineyard is fuch as is warm 

 -and free from grafs feeds, for grafs is a great enemy to 

 vines; Fowl's dung of every kind, except water fowl; 

 foap aflies, or other aflics fprinkled thinly between the 

 rows of vines, but not too near them, for this manure is 

 very hot and fharp, and is beft fpread on the ground in 

 the fall, that it may mix with the foil and be properly 

 tempered before the heat of the next fummer comes on, 

 otherwife it would burn up the plants the rich foil that is 

 wafhed down and fettles along the fides of brooks and 

 rivers and in many low Y)laces along roads and high- 

 ways, which poor and induftrious people may eafily come 



at; fea fand, mixed with common foil that might be taken 

 up along the high ways, would make an excellent manure; 

 in fhort, fand of every kind mixed in large proportions 

 with good foil, is very comforting to vines, for thofe vines 

 produce the fwceteft and richeft grapes, and the ftrongeft 

 and beft flavoured wines, that grow in rich fandy foils: 

 The morter of old buildings, that has been made of lime 

 and fand, pounded fine; the duft of charcoal, the fmall 

 coal and the earth that the coal kilns are covered with 

 v^^hen burnt; the foot of chimneys; the fmall cinders and 

 black dirt found about fmith's flaops, all thefe arc excellent 



manure 



n 



I 



'^' 



^' 



1 



T. 



-V 



4 



► 



