The TraUlcd Kitchen Gardiner. 89 



dafhings ; and when you do water them, 

 which fhould be once a week at moft, 

 when they are knitting, and not above 

 twice when near grown, you are to hold 

 up the vines gently with your old hat- 

 brims, and pour it round at the extre- 

 mity of the fibres, in fuch a manner 

 that the water touch not the leaves nor 

 fruit 5 and let the water be fuch as is 

 taken from the bottom of fome horfc- 

 dung heap, or fuch as has been melio- 

 rated by fheep or deer's dung, and fet a 

 warming in the fun for a day or two. 



The time of day for watering, is ^z-ofthtimB 

 cording to the feafon of the year, and/'"' 

 ftate in which your fruit is; when it is^"^° 

 young, and newly knitting, the beft time 

 is in the morning, about eight or nine 

 a- clock, as foon as the fun has got 

 ftrength to dry up all fupcrfluous moif- 

 ture 5 but when the fruit grows larger, 

 and the days are longer and hotter, then 

 the evening is the beft time : At all 

 which times, care fhould be taken next 

 not to wet the vines, for that will fcald 

 them ; nor fhould the roots or ftems 

 touch the hot dung. The latter part of 

 thefe diredions arc agreeable to my oft- 

 quoted author; Never fuffer (fays he) 

 2 the 



