126 THE GRAPE. 
a house or even a vineyard will continue to yield a good . 
crop for two or three generations, than when the planting, 
fresh borders, &e., has to be renewed every ten, 
or at most fifteen years. 
In making these remarks we would not wish to be 
severe, for there are many persons so situated by pe- 
euliar circumstances as to prevent them from carrying 
out the most natural or best methods of culture, even 
though they may be aware of the error of their present 
practice, yet there are others who have popular and prac- 
tical prejudices to overcome, before they will be enabled 
this free country at least, where the mutual and physical 
industry of man is unfettered, and where we may become 
a pattern to the world, in good culture, if not in artificial 
grandeur. 
We cannot let the SS part of the subject pass by 
without a few remarks on summer pruning, and as it may 
be thought that this is cates repetition of former words, 
we plead the importance of the matter for the introduc- 
tion. It has often been advised, and that, too, by some of 
— conscientiously believe such | @ system to be judi- : 
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