OF PRUNING. 



SECT. XII, 



warm foil, and full fun, or fome accidental advantage, 

 as being planted at the back of a warm chimney; and 

 though they will grow and bear leaves anywhere, thev 

 will not fruit well in England, without a favourable 

 feafon, or hot fummer. 



Young new planted vines mould be pruned quite 

 fhort, for two or three years, that they may get ftrong. 

 If the plant has a weak root, not above one moot ought 

 to grow the firft year, which mould be cut down in 

 autumn, or to two or three eve?. 



- Thebeft time for the principal, or winter pruning of 

 vines,, is beft as foon as the fruit is off, or the leaves 

 falling. November does very well, and if this month 

 paffes, February mould be adopted, rather than quite 

 in the winter. Late in the fpring they are apt to bleed 

 by cutting, which greatly weakens them. 



The mode of bearing in vines "is onlv on moots of 

 the prefent year, proceeding from year old wood. The 

 rule, therefore, at winter pruning is, to referve fuck 

 {hoots of the year that are beft fituated as to room, for 

 training of thofe (hoots that are to come from them, 

 which will be almoftone from every eye. Make choice 

 of thofe that are placed mo ft towards the middle, or 

 ftem of the vine, that all the wall may be covered with 

 bearing wood ; and every year cut fome old wood out 

 that reaches far, to make room for younger to follow. 



The form that a vine takes on the wall is various, and 

 not very material, whether it be more horizontal, or 

 perpendicular. The form muft be governed according 

 tothe fpace of walling allotted to it; fometimes it has 

 ample room, as at the gable end of a houfe, and fome- 

 times it is confined to a low wall, or between trees, 

 windows, &c. The referved {hoots mould be twelve 

 or fifteen inches afunder, if they are ftrong, and weak 

 ones may be fomething lefs : hardly too much room 

 can be allowed them. 



The flwtening of the moots mould be according to 

 their ftrength and the (pace there is for training thofe 



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