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general should be pruned to two, three, or four 

 eyes each, 



, And when Vines are only moderately vigorous, 

 shoots should be left about a span long. This, 

 however, must be understood only of spreading 

 Vines that cover a good extent of walling ; for 

 Vines, trained in one shoot up the rafters, in a 

 hot-house, require a different treatment. 



When Vines are in extreme vigour, they always 

 produce the best grapes from shoots that are left a 

 great length. 



The height of a Vinery will seldom admit of 

 shoots, be they ever so strong, being left longer 

 than six or seven feet ; but when vigorous Vines 

 are trained in one shoot up the rafters, in a hot- 

 house, they may constantly be pruned to the length 

 of eighteen, twenty, or twenty-two feet. A person 

 unaccustomed to this practice would, from hence, 

 be inclined to deem this mode absurd, and would 

 naturally conclude, that the Vines must be rendered 

 weak by it. It is not, however, from the length 

 of the shoot, but from suffering by the next year's 

 crop, that such danger is to be apprehended. 



The extreme parts of these long and vigorous 

 shoots always produce both bunches and berries of 

 a remarkable size. The uncommon large bunches 

 that have been produced in Welbeck gardens have 

 constantly come from the uppermost eye of shoots 

 of the above description. 



I have already observed, that the spurs, produced 

 from principal shoots, should invariably be pruned 



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