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o GRAPES, and their Orprnine: 
thofe ee or Joints, whofe sbiat. mis ‘and fifth Joints, produce the 
Fruits we receive. Ses 
IT is a common. Method amongft moft Gardeners, to prune the laft 
Year's Shoots of Vines to four Buds, (as Zz. I. Place LIV.) imagining 
that their Fruits are produc’d as aforefaid : And indeed where there is 
Plenty of Wood the Method isnot amifs, when Vines are growing 
againft a Wall ; but in Vineyards ‘tis entirely wrong, if the Vines are 
in a good State oh Health : ‘For when the Seafon has produc’d Branches 
that are truly healthful and mature, they may. be prun’d to three Feet 
each in Length ; and if. af etwards, in the Spring, they are inclin’d to 
an almoft horizontal ‘Pofition, at proper Diftances from each other, fo 
as to have a free Perfpiration, every Bud would produce a Shoot, and 
each Shoot two or three Bunches of Grapes ; fo that inftead of having 
from one Shoot, after the common Method of Pruning, to four Joints, 
but three or four Bunches only, we may have ten or twelve, and each 
equally as good ; and confequently a very few Plants will produce a 
great Quanticy of Fruits. If any doubr or difpute the Truth hereof, let 
them but go and view the Vines now growing in the Garden of 
Mr, Warner at Rotherbith, which, iby. his judicious Management after the 
Manner before defcrib’ d, annually “produce great Quantities of the Bur- 
gundy, and, if I xin not, the Claret-Grape alfo, with which he 
makes 
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