ON THE VINERY. 



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whole plant will require to be pruned down to this 

 shoot the next winter. 



Only one shoot should be left upon those Vines 

 that were pruned down to three or four eyes, (I 

 suppose at every other rafter,) and this must be 

 trained up the rafter as in the preceding year. 



In spring, the weather is frequently very vari- 

 able ; and, therefore, it will be necessary that the 

 gardener should pay strict attention to every part 

 of the management of the Vinery himself ; and 

 particularly to the fires, admission of air, and water- 

 ing of the border. If these be left to the care of 

 labourers, the success will be very precarious, since 

 it is from an attentive, proper, and judicious ap- 

 portionment of heat, air, and moisture, that we 

 must look for success. 



Particular attention will be required when the 

 Vines are in flower c , as a small neglect at that 



c At the time of the Vines flowering in a Vinery, &c. the air 

 is impregnated with effluvia of a very agreeable scent. This 

 circumstance is noted in a passage in the Canticles, ii. 13. very 

 remarkable and expressive. The words are, ' The Vines with 

 the tender grape give a good smell.' 



As even a very few bunches in flower are capable of afford- 

 ing a sensible and very pleasing odour, it seems somewhat 

 extraordinary that Sir Thomas Brown should have thought dif- 

 ferently in his comment on the above text. 



" That the flowers of the Vine should be emphatically 

 noted to give a pleasant smell, seems hard unto our Northern 

 nostrils, which discover not such odours, and smell them not in 

 full vineyards; whereas in hot regions, and more spread and 

 digested flowers, a sweet savour may be allowed denotable 

 from several human expressions, and the practice of the 



