The Fruit-Garpen Luftrated. 
Seiad 
Itt 
* 
makes chearful Neétor for the Accommodation of his Friends. But 
fince that our Climate and Soil, in many Parts of England, is not.na- 
turabto the Vine, fo as to produce our beft Sorts of Grapes in open 
Vineyards, we muft therefore plant them againft our beft afpected Walls, 
that their Juices may be ripen’d in as good Perfeétion as the Seafon is 
_able to produce. 
THE moft natural Soils for Vines, are rich, dry, light, fandy, rocky, 
or chalky Lands, inclinable to a Gravel : For as they don’t imbibe and 
perfpire fo much as Apples, Pears, °c. which delight in moift ftift 
Lands, therefore lefs Moifture bears a nearer Proportion to their Nature ; 
for there’s nothing deftroys Vines fooner than an over-and-above Quan- 
tity of Moifture, 
FOR tho’ the Vine bleeds moft freely in its bleeding Seaton, and 
produces many long fucculent Branches, and great Plenty of very juicy 
Fruits ; yet from the third Experiment of Mr. Hales’s Vegetable Staticks, 
p- 17. it is plain, that the Vine is not a great Perfpixer, and therefore 
thrives beft in dry Soils. | 
ng Vines, which, when nted exactly 
oe 
bil cca * 
THE beft Seafon for Pruning the Vine, is the End of September ; 
for as the Seafon is then warm, the feveral Orifices are immediately 
healed, fo that in the following Spring, when the Sap begins ‘to rife, in 
the bleeding Seafon, it cannot be diminifh’d thereby, and confequently 
every Branch is better able to produce good Fruits, than when prun‘d 
in an improper Seafon, and greatly weaken'd by the Lofs of Sap. 
: THE clofer or nearer together the Buds of young Shoots are, the 
more fruitful ; and therefore we fhould obferve, at the Time of Pruning, 
to lay in fuch Branches, whofe Lengths need not be conftrain’d to four 
Joints, as is common, but in Proportion to their Length or Thicknefs. 
A very ftrong Branch may be laid in at two Feet and a half in Length, 
others lefs flronger, two Feet, eighteen Inches, a Foot, oem 
THE 
