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New Principles of Gardening. 
not to exceed ten Inches, or a Foot in Depth, and to bend the 
upper Part in fuch a Manner, as for the two Eyes or Buds as 
are left out of the Ground to ftand Perpendicular. 
The warmett Expofure is the bef? for the Vive, and there- 
fore fhould be always defended by Woods, Hills, ©c. : 
The beft Soil for Vines isa rich warm Loam, mix’d with 
frefh hot Sand, or Gravel, or inftead thereof, Sea-Coal Afbes, 
Wood Afbes, Brick-Rubbifh, Lime, or Drift Sand. When 
you prepare Borders of tltis Mixture, they need not be 
more than four Foot in Breadth, or deeper than one Foot; 
for thofe Juices of the Harth as nourifhes the Vine, lies very 
near to the Surface of the Ground. cas 
The beft Seafon for planting Vines is Oéfober, or Beginning 
of February, if the Weather be open ; but of the two, Irecom- 
mend the Autumm Planting before that of the Spring. When 
Vines are remov’d from a Nurfery, &c. great Care mult be 
taken to preferve the Roots from the parching Winds, and that 
they be not very dry at Planting. So foon as Vines are taken 
out of the Ground, they fhould be ig, up with wet Mo/s, 
or wet Hay, and clofely bound in AZzzs, which will preferve 
cir Roots a long Time if need be. en 
‘When you plant Vines, prune the Ends of their Roots with 
Difcretion, and to the Top or Head of the Plant leave but 
two or three Joints at moft; and when in 4pri/ they begin to 
fhoot, make choice of the two ftrongeft Shoots, which pre- 
ferve, and the others difplace; as alfo other fmall Shoots at 
all Times, that thereby thofe two Branches may have the 
whole Nourifhment, which will enable them to produce Fruit 
much fooner than had they been weaken’d by other Branches as 
would have robb’d them of their Strength. 
To plant Vines at fuch Diftances as they will fill in Time, 
as eighteen or twenty Feet, (their Branches being laid in a 
horizontal Pofition,) is lofing the Ufe of a great deal of Wal- 
ling for feveralt-Years; therefore, to prevent fuch Loffes, Lad- 
vife that you plant your Vines at ten Foot apart; and when 
they meet, and want Room, to cut away fo much of the in- 
termediate Vine (v/z. the middlemoft of every three) as will 
give fufficient Room for the others to extend themfelves. And 2 
although Mr. Lawrence difcommends the PraGtice of now and 
then laying down Branches to ffrike Root, ec. yet I aie 
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