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they muft be writhed and twifted in manner aforefaid, fb as the vineftock may j3ut forth no more G 

 ■ ' than foure boughs at the moft, or twainc if fo be it reft but upon one chanter or raiingeof per- 

 ches. If you would order a vine fo as it may ftand alone without any props, at the beginning it 

 would defire and have fomcfupporter or other (it makes no matter what) to reft upon, untiliic 

 have learned to ftand of it felfe, & rife upright : afterwards, it is to be ufed in manner of all other 

 vinesjwhcn this training is paft. This regard would be had in pruning and cutting the twiggs of 

 thefcvinescalledPollicesjThata man well guide and ballance his hand, andgoe even withall 

 in every pan indifferently /or fearc leaft one fide be charged with fruit or braunch more than the 

 other -.where by the way, hemuftalfo remember tokeepe downc the head, and notfuflerit irj 

 any wife to runne up in height: for if this kind of vine be above three foot highlit will hang the 

 head downward. As for others^they may wel grovyto five foot and upward,ib that they paffe not pj 

 in any cafe the full height ofaman.To come now unto the other vines that creepe along and 

 Ipread over the ground 5 they be environed all the way as they run, with pretie fhort hollow ca- 

 ges as itmrc, to reft and repofe their braunches in. They have need moreover of certaine tren- 

 ches or ditches round about to run in, to the end that as the faid braunches wander too and fro, 

 they fliould not encounter one another & ftrivetogither.And verily in moft parts of the worlds 

 they ufe to gather their vintage oi vines thus growing low by the ground : as we may fee the ma- 

 tter is in Artricke,iEgyptj Syria, throughout all Alia, and inmanyplaccs of Europe. For the 

 good ufage and dreflingof thcfevinesjafpeciall care would be had to keepe themdowneclofc 

 to the earth ; and to fortifie the root,fo long and in the fanje manner,as hath been iliewcd before 

 in thole, that are fliored or beare upon frames 3 with this charge and regard befides, to leave al- 

 waies the lliort twigs only called Pollices,with three buds apeecejin cafe the ground be fruitful! ; - I 

 *^;«/j,Tathcr ot* fivCjif it belight and Icaue. Andin onc word,betier itis without all queflion, that they be 

 cvvaine. j^^^ tiiany,than long. As for thofe points which wee have delivered heretofore^as touching the 

 nature oi thefoile, they will be more effectually feene to proove either the goodnelfeor the 

 contrarie,in the grapes of this vine, by how much nearer they lie to the ground, than others^ 

 Wherein, confideration is to be had of the fundrie forts of vines, namely, that they be fevered 

 apart ; and nothing is better,ihan to fort every one with rhe trad or region that agreeth befl with 

 it,and therein to plant them accordingly: for thefe mixtures of divers kinds are never goodjbut 

 alwaies d;fcordant: naught in old wines that come to our table jUiuch worfcthen youmay bee 

 flue, in thofe that be new and not yet tunned up. But if a man will intermingle plants of fundrie 

 vines togither,yetin any cafe thofe would be joyned togither (and none clfc) which ripen their K 

 fruit at one and the fame time. 



Forframesand trailes wherein vines areto run; the better and more battle that the ground 

 of the vineyard is, the plainer & evener that it lyeth , the higher they would be from the ground 5 

 likewifc if the place be fub)e6t to dcwes,fogs,and mifts,and nothing expofed to the winds : con- 

 trariwife, if the ground be leane and drie, bote, and open to the winds, they muft be the lower 

 and nearer to the earth. Asconcerning the rafters, that 1 e over and reach from prop to prop, 

 they ought to be tied and fattened thereto with as ftieight and furea knot as ispoflible j whereas 

 the vine would be bound unto them, but flacke. Of the fundrie forts of vines,as alfb which were 

 to be planted in this or that foile, and what coafts and climats each one of them loveth,we have £ 

 flicwed fufficiently in the particular treatife of their natuie, and ofthe wines that come of them. 



Touching all other points of husbandrie that rcmaine behindjUiuch doubt anddivers qtie- 

 ftions are made :for many there be that fearenot all Summer long to beedigging inthevinc- 

 yard aboutvinc roots, after every little raine. Others againe forbid to meddle 6c be iuftie therin, 

 in the budding time : for it cannot be avoide J, but tliat the young oilets will either be fmitten off 

 cleanc, or elft^alled andbruifedone time or other, with their gate that go in and out between: 

 which is the caufc, that they would have all kind of cattell tobcekeptoutthat they come not 

 neare,and efpecially fuch as beare wooil on their backs 5 for fhecpe of all others fooneft rub off 

 the buds as they pafle by,with their fhag-coats. Moreover, they are of opinion, that all manner 

 of raking and harrowing, is an enemie to vines when they be in their flowre, and putting foorth ^ 

 young grapes : andfufficientit is (fay they) if a vineyard be delved thrice in oneyeerej to witjfirft 

 from the Spring iEquinoXj to the apparition of the Brood-hen ftarrejfecondiy, at the tifing of 

 the greatDog-itarre 5and thirdly ,when the grape beginneth to change colour and turn blacke. 

 Others fct out thefe times after this manner : if the vineyard be old, they would have it once dig- 



