ON THE VINERY. 



the third summer, and especially from the tempo- 

 rary plants, yet it will be prudent to have a regard 

 to future wood, rather than to the crop. 



It is an injudicious practice to endeavour to get 

 an early crop from young Vines, as in that case it 

 will be required to make fires early in the spring, 

 which would prove very prejudicial to the Vines, 

 by forcing them out at a season when much air 

 cannot be given, for want of which the shoots 

 would grow weak and long-jointed. 



be taken. Every weed that is picked up in the vineyards, every 

 blade of grass that arises, is saved with as much care as the 

 grapes, and given to the cows. * 



" Dung is, however, sometimes laid on in March, but it is not 

 reckoned so proper for that work as Autumn. The quantity is the 

 same at either season. Over-dunging they reckon prejudicial to 

 Vines, causing them to run too much to wood, giving the wine a 

 heaviness, and making it apt to grow mothery. But this depends 

 on the soil ; for some lands are so deficient in natural fertility, 

 that, unless they are dunged more than commonly, they will 

 not yield a crop : they lay a thousand baskets on such, and 

 sometimes even so far as twelve hundred. 



" I objected that this general spirit of dunging vineyards 

 must rob all the common husbandry in the country ; that, replied 

 he, is of no consequence, for corn will not pay for dung where 

 there are vineyards to demand it. Upon my doubting this, he 

 seemed to lay it down as a maxim that could not be contro- 

 verted." 



Marshall's Travels, vol. iv. p. 78. 



* The whole of this paragraph merits particular attention, and 

 is truly worthy the farmer s unremitted imitation, v 



