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The third Seafon you muft go 

 over the Vines again, as Toon as they 

 begin to fhoot, rubbing off all 

 DaBglers, a> before, and training in 

 the ltadingShocts, whicli this Seafon 

 may be fuppoftd to be two from 

 each Shoot of tfre laft Year's Wood ; 

 but it they attempt to produce two 

 Shoots from one Eye, the wrakcit 

 of them A till be rubbed ofT ; for 

 there thould never be n: ,r- than one 

 allow'd to come out of an . ye. If 

 any of them produces Fruit, as many 

 times they will the third Year, you 

 fhould not ftcp them, fo foon ai is 

 generally p^actifed upon the bearing 

 Shoots of old Vines, but permit 

 them to fnoot forward till Midfum- 

 mer ; at which time you may pinch 

 off the l ops of the Shoots ; for if 

 this were done too focn, it would 

 fpoii the Buds for the next Year's 

 Wood, which in young Vines muft 

 be carefully preferv'd, becaufe there 

 are no Shoots laid in on purpofe for 

 Wood, as is commonly pra&is'd on 

 old Vines. 



During theSummeryou muft con- 

 ftantly go over your Vines, and dis- 

 place all weak lateral Shoots as they 

 are produe'd, and carefully keep the 

 Ground clear from Weeds, as was 

 before directed, that the Shoots may 

 ripen well : which is a material 

 thing to be obferv'd in moft Sorts of 

 Fruit-tree?, but efpecially in Vines; 

 which feldom produce any Fruit 

 from immature Branches. Thefe 

 things, being duly obferv'd, are all 

 that is necefiary in the Management 

 of young Vines : I fhall therefore 

 proceed to lay down Rules for the 

 Government of grown Vines, which 

 I fhall do as briefly as poffible. And, 

 Fir ft, Vines rarely produce any 

 bearing Shoot? from Wood that is 

 more than one Year old ; therefore 

 great Care mould be taken to have 

 jiuch Wood m every Part of the 



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Trees ; for the Fruit are always pro- 

 due'd upon Shoots which come out 

 from the Buds of the laft Year's 

 Wood ; fo that it is always upon 

 the fame Year's Shoots. The Me-* 

 thod commonly pra&is'd by the 

 Gardeners in England is, to (horten 

 the Branches of the former Year's 

 Growth, down to three or four 

 Eyes, at the time of pruning ; tho* " 

 there are fome Perfons, who leave 

 thefe Shoots four or five Eyes long ; 

 and affirm, that by this Praclicethey 

 obtain a greater Quantity of Fruit : 

 but this is very wrong, fince it is im- 

 poffible, that one Root can nourifh 

 forty or fifty Bunches of Grapes, fo 

 well as it can ten or twelve ; fo that 

 what is gotten in Number, is 

 loft in their Magnitude ; befides, the 

 greater Quantity of Fruit there is 

 left on Vines, the later they are ri- 

 pen'd, and their Juice is not fo rich. 

 And this is well known in theWine- 

 countries, where there are Laws en- 

 acted to. direel the Quantity of 

 Shoots, and the Number of Eyes 

 that thofe are to have upon each 

 Shoot, left, by overbearing them, 

 they not only exhauft and weaken 

 the Roots, but thereby render the 

 Juice weak, and fo deftroy the Re- 

 putation of their Wine. 



Wherefore the beft Method is, to 

 leave the bearing Shoots about four 

 Eyes in Length, becaufe the lower- 

 moft never produce, and three Buds 

 are fumcient ; for each of thefe will 

 produce two or three Bunches ; fo 

 that from each of thofe Shoots there 

 may be expected fix or eight Bunch- 

 es, which is a fufheient Quantity. 

 Thefe Shoots muft be laid in about 

 eighteen Inches afunder ; for if they 

 are clofer, when the Side-fhoots are 

 produe'd, there will not be room 

 enough to train them in againft the 

 Wall, which fhould always be ob- 

 ferv'd ; and as their Leaves are ve- 

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