Account of a Method of Managing Vines, $c. 247 



luxuriant growth, never appear in any confusion, even to 

 those who are but little skilled in the cultivation of Grapes, 

 and the method is so simple, that it may be described with 

 the assistance of figures, so as to be perfectly comprehended 

 by any person in the least acquainted with the nature of the 

 Vine. I have never deviated from it since I planted the 

 Vines in the spring of 1806. 



In the latter end of December 1805, I obtained a suffi- 

 cient number of Vine plants from London, of different sorts, 

 which appeared so very strong that I concluded they were 

 all well rooted, I therefore did not think it necessary to exa- 

 mine them till the ground in the house was ready for their 

 reception. In the mean time I plunged them, with their 

 pots, into a dry mellow soil, on a south-border, till the spring. 

 When the place was in regular order for their reception, I 

 turned the plants carefully out of the pots, and had the mor- 

 tification to find some but very indifferently rooted. This 

 must invariably be the case, whilst the practice continues of 

 forming new plants by introducing the shoots of the preceding 

 year into the bottom of the pots, and simply passing them up 

 through the mould 



My Vines were planted inside of the house at two feet and a 

 half apart, nearly close to the front wall, and eighteen inches 

 distant from the flue which runs in front (see Plate VIII. 

 fig. 1.); and as both the wall and the flue were built on wide 

 arches, the roots had liberty to extend themselves either way 

 without interruption. After they were planted, and watered 

 to settle the earth round their balls, I headed them down tu 

 within a foot of the soil, as is here represented. 



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