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your finger, the young clufiers, as foon as they appear, 

 from thofe hranches, which you referve for hearing fruit 

 the fucceeding year. When I mention a branch, I mean 



a main branch of young w(j()d, not a fide or hiteral branch, 

 that grows upon thefe young main hranches. 



When the arms have born fruit, they arc cut clean away 

 in the fall of the year, as foon as the vintage is over, pro- 

 vided you have hranches of referve, growing on the fhouU 

 ders, to fupply their places: But if you have been fo un- 

 hicky, as to have failed in thefe, notwithllandiug all your 

 attempts to procure them; you muft tlien do what necef- 

 fity requires, and cut the arms down to two, three, or four 



i^ood buds each, according to the ftrcngth 



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but then remember, not to fuffer any fruit to grow on the 

 branches, that fpring from the lower bud on each old arm, 

 thefe being now abfolutely necefliiry for branches of referve 

 in order to recruit the arras the next year. According to 

 thefe rules you conftantly proceed with vines on efpaliers« 

 As fome of our fouthern colonies have a hot fandy foil, 

 and are fubje£l; to great heats and parching droughts, and 

 tliereby find it very difficult to raife and preferve vines, fo 

 as to become fruitful; I fliall here offer fome thoughts and 

 diredions, which I imagine mod likely to fuccced in thefe 

 parching hot countries; as Imoflfincerely wifli comfort and 

 happinefs to every colony on the continent and that the whole 

 may become as beneficial as poffible to the mother country. 



Firftthcn, I think it neceffiiry to ihade the young vines 

 the firfl two or three years, during the hot dry fcafons, 

 by driving down firmly in the ground, branches of trees 

 tlfick fet with leaves, on the fouih fide of the vines; thefe 

 are better than matts, or pieces of thatch work, as the 

 air and winds can pafs more freely through thcoi; it will 

 alfo be ncceflliry to water thcfc young vines twice a week, 

 during the hot dry feafons, in the evening, that the water may 

 have the whole night to foak down to tlie roots of the vines, 

 tocoolandrefrefli them; the branches, in thefe hot countries, 

 fhould not be tied up to ftakes, but fliould be fuffercd to run on 



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