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Fruit they produce are feldom either Crab or Wilding, but 
are often as good as the Mother-Fruit, and fometimes (tho’-ve- 
ry feldom) better. 
5.4 FAIL 
Of the Vine; tts Names, Culture, &c. 
led by the Greeks durex@ sven ; by the Latins Vites, 
Vinifera, Sativa, and Culta; by the Arabians Karin, 
Karni, or Harin; by the Itahans Vite Venefera;, by the Dutch 
Wungaert, or Winflacke, by the French Vigne; by the Ger- 
mans Weinreb, and by the Spaniards Vid, or Parm. 
Tis propagated by Layers, or Cuttings, which Works are 
to be done in Odfober : And in the Operation you mutt obferve, 
that three or four Buds at leaft be in the Ground; for’tis from 
them their Roots put forth. In the Choice of Cuttings ob- 
ferve to take thofe as are of the laft Year’s Shoot, /froug and vi- 
Sorous, which cut to fixteen or eighteen Inches long, and plant 
under an Eaft Wall, leaving but two Buds out of Ground, in 
Rows, about a Foot or fifteen Inches afunder ; and in the Rows, 
at the Diftance of eight Inches. When your Cuttings are thus 
_ planted, cover the ground between them with Hor/e-Dung, a- 
bout five or fix Inches thick, and if the Spring prove very dry, 
you muft now and then give them Water, fo as to keep them 
moift, which a Vine requires at its ftriking Root; and if 
your Land be warm and light, in two Years Time will be fit 
to tran{plant. 
If the Cuttings of Vines be planted in the open Air, with- 
out the Help of any Shade, and are about two Foot, 
or two Foot and a half in Length, and all buried, two 
Buds excepted; fuch Cuttings kept mozf in the Spring, will 
grow and thrive very well, but in this Operation, you muft 
obferve, that you lay the Cuttings in flping, the loweft Part 
3 
i 1 HIS Ghrious Plant the Vine, when cultivated, is cal- 
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