New Principles of Gardening. 
great Lengths: Alfo nail clofe to the Wall all Branches with 
Fruit, and difplace all weak ones when they appear as before 
directed; but obferve that the Fruit is not thereby /aid open 
to the Sua, which will now either deffroy or fpoil its Growth. 
N.B. The beft Grapes are always produced by vigorous Bran- 
ches at the fourth or fifth Foint. 
In Fuly, Vines ave in their full Strength and V; zgour, there- 
fore keep them carefully pruned of falfe Wood, as is faid be- 
fore, that the Fruit may not be deprived of its proper Heat and 
Nourifhment ; and about the Middle of this Month examine 
all vigorous Shoots pruned at Mid/ummer, whereon you'll 
find fecondary Shoots from their feveral Buds, which difplace, 
the uppermoft excepted, prun’d off at one or two Buds 
Length, to admit Nature’s exerting herfelf in its la{t Shoot of 
Autumn, and to preferve the Lofs of Fruit or Wood from thofe 
Branches. 
‘Tis abfolutely neceflary that ftri& Regard be had to Sum- 
mer Pruning, that a fufficient Number of vigorous Shoots 
be laid in to fucceed fuch old ones as will be cut out in the 
Winter ; and although Vines will produce Grapes from Knots 
of old Wood, yet they are never fo good as thofe produced 
from firong and vigorous Branches. | 
Great Care mutt be taken to tie up all ufeful Branches of 
Ves planted againt & {paliers, or in Vineyards, and alfo to 
difplace by Pinching all ufelefs weak Branches, as dire€ted for 
Vines againft Walls. | 3 
In Auguft give them the laft Pruning, and keep the Fruit 
clofe to the Wall, difcreetly fhaded with Leaves, {0 as to part- 
ly expofe them to the Suz, and preferve them from the co/d 
Nights. = 
In September the Vine produces its delicious Fruit, which 
muft be very dry when gathered, otherwife they foon grow 
moldy and rotten. 
Grapes gather’d dry, and preferved from the Froft, will keep 
a long Time; but ’tis beft to gather them a little before they 
are ripe, and to hang them on a Line, with the End of 
the Stalk feal’d witl Sealing-Wax. a 3 
M2 SECT. 
