SECT. XII. 



OF PRUNING. 



ilioots that will be produced, which always grow verv 

 long. If there is room, three, four, or five eves may 

 be left, but not more to any (hoot, except it is defirabie 

 to extend lome (hoot to a diftance to fill up a particular 

 fpace, and then eight or nine eyes may be left, which 

 being repeated again another year, and fo on, a vine 

 will foon reach tar. 



Sometimes vines are trained on low walls by a long 

 extended horizontal branch, a few inches from the 

 ground, as a mother bearer. Thofe moots that come 

 trom this horizontal are to be trained perpendicularly, 

 and cut down to oue or two eves every year T that they 

 may not encroach too fall on the fpace above them. 

 It the vine is confined to a narrow but lofty fpace, it is 

 to be trained to an extended perpendicular mother bearer, 

 having fliort lateral (hoots pruned down to a (ingle eye, 

 or at moll two. The management of vines requires 

 Jevere cutting, that they may not be too full in the 

 fummer, for they put out a great deal of wood, and ex- 

 tend their {hoots to a great length ; and therefore the 

 young primer muft refiolve to cut out enough. 



An alternate mode ot priming vines is practiced by 

 fome, one ihoot fliort, and another long ; i. e. one with 

 two eyes, and another with four or five. Severe cutting 

 does not hurt -vines, and make them unfruitful as it 

 does other trees; and therefore, where fhort of room, 

 they may be pruned down to a fingle bud, as the.- cafe 

 requires. 



The Jumrner management of vines mull be carefully, 

 attended to. As foon as the young Ihoots can be nailed 

 to the wall, let them not be neglected; but remember 

 they are very tender, and will not bear much bending : 

 train in only the well -placed moots, rubbing or break- 

 ing off the others. The embrxo fruit is foon feen in the 

 bofom of the moot, and thoie thus furnifhed are of 

 courfe to be laid in, as many as can be found room for, 

 in preference to thoie ihoois that are barren, which ne- 

 verthelefs mould alfo be trained, if thev are ftrorig and 



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