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be cut to their Lengths, and their 

 Ends laid into the Ground, and then 

 covered with Litter to keep the Air 

 from them : but,unce, I have found 

 it a much betterMethod not to fhort- 

 en the Shoots, from which the Cut- 

 ting is to be made, but lay their Ends 

 juft into the Ground, about two 

 Inches deep, and fo leave them at full 

 Length, only obferving to cover 

 then with dry Litter or Peas-haulm 

 in frcfty dry Weather ; though in 

 moift Weather the Covering mould 

 not remain on, becaufe it would 

 make the Cuttings grow mouldy, 

 %vhich would greatly injure them. 

 Then in the Spring, when they are 

 to be planted, they mould be taken 

 out of the Ground, and their Upper- 

 part cut off, fo as to reduce them to 

 about fourteen Inches in Length, ac- 

 cording to the Diftance of the Buds 

 or Eyes ; for thofe Cuttings, whofe 

 Buds grow pretty clofe together, 

 need not be left more than one Foot 

 long ; but in others fourteen Inches 

 will be full fhort. The leaving the 

 Upper-part of the Shoots on all the 

 Winter, is of great Service to the 

 Cuttings ; becaufe when they are 

 cut off in Autumn, the Air pene- 

 trates the wounded Part, and greatly 

 injures the lower Eyes. 



The Management of thefe Vines, 

 for the three firft Years after plant- 

 ing, being the fame as is practib'd 

 for thofe againft common Walls, I 

 fhall not repeat it in this Place, 

 having fully treated of that already ; 

 only will obierve, that, during thefe 

 three Years, the Vines Ihould be 

 encouraged as much as poffible, and 

 the Shoots not left too long, nor too 

 many in Number on each Root, 

 that they may be duly ripen'd, and 

 prepaid for bearing the fourth 

 Year, which is the fooneft they 

 Ihould be-forced ; for when any Sorts 

 of Fruit-trees are forced by Fire too 

 young, they feldom continue above 



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three or four Years, and, during that 

 time, produce very weak Shoots ; 

 and whatFruit they producers fmall, 

 and not well-flavour'd ; fo that, in 

 being over-hafty to fave a Year or 

 two, very often the whole Defign is 

 loft ; for, unlefs the Trees are in a 

 proper Condition to bear much 

 Fruit, it is not worth while to make 

 Fires for a fmall Quantity of ftarved 

 ill-tafted Fruit; the Expence and 

 Trouble being the fame for ten 

 or twelve Bunches of Grapes, as it 

 will be for an hundred or more. 



Thefe Vines fhould not be fore'd 

 every Year; but with good Manage- 

 ment they may be fore'd every 

 other Year ; though it would be yet 

 better, if it were done only every 

 third Year : therefore, in order to 

 have a Supply of Fruit annually, 

 there Ihould be a fufficient Quantity 

 of Walling built, to contain as many 

 Vines as will be neceffary for two 

 or three Years ; fo that by making 

 the Frames in Front moveable, they 

 may be-mifted from one Part of the 

 Wall to another, as the Vines are al- 

 ternately forced. Therefore I would 

 advife about forty Feet in Length 

 of Walling, to be each Year forced, 

 which is as much as one Fire will 

 heat ; and when the Vines are in 

 full Bearing,will fupply a reafonable 

 Quantity of Grapes for a middling 

 Family. 



In mod Places where thefe Hot- 

 walls have been built, they are com- 

 monly planted with early Kinds of 

 Grapes, in order to have them early 

 in the Seafon ; but this, I think, is 

 hardly worth the Trouble ; for it is 

 but of little Confequence to have a 

 few Grapes earlier by a Month or 

 fix Weeks, than thofe againft com- 

 mon Walls ; therefore I mould ad- 

 vife, whenever a Perfon is willing 

 to be at the Expence of thefe Walls, 

 that they may be planted with fome 

 of the beft Kinds of Grapes, which 



