tor the wiieei-barrowjiiie ground to be removed should not be tar any 

 tant from the Vineyard. 



The dung-cart requires the assistance of two oxen and two labourers, 

 and may injure the runners and shoots ; therefore it should not enter 

 the Vineyard ; but the earth should be discharged outside, and the 

 barrow will serve to transport it to the Vines. The time at wliich this 

 is done, is generally from the latter part of April to the beginning of 

 June ; it is better to do it in the fall or begiiming of winter. In 

 cold countries it should be delayed until pruning. 



According to the observations of Rozier, the Vine needs no manur- 

 ing so long as the stock retains a deep brown hue ; but when it takes 

 a lighter shade verging upon the yellow, it is an infalhble sign of weak- 

 ness ; then it will require the earth to be renewed every five or six years. 

 The duration of the fertiUzing properties of the new soil, depend 

 on certain points in its quality ; if it is earth that has been washed 

 away by rains from the Vineyards, its effects will not last long. If 

 the new layer is fresh soil, and a thick coat of it be spread, the Vine-- 

 yard will require no other for ten, twelve, or fifteen years; and so in 

 like proportion, if the layer be slender, the needs of the Vine \vill again 

 return in a few years. 



