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CHAPTER ¥1IL 



OF VINES, 



different Sorts of Tines cultivated in England — Of their Propaga- 

 tion — Experiments on Training and Pruning, with full Direc- 

 tions for the right Performance of both — Ufe of the Compofition 

 in Pruning— Of Watering— Preferving Grapes from Flies, 

 Wafps, and Birds — Of gathering Grapes, and keeping them in 

 Winter* 



TThE Vine is a native of mod of the temperate parts of the 

 world, and has been cultivated ever fince the flood. It be- 

 longs to the firft order of Linnaeus's fifth Oafs, Pentandria 

 Monogynia, 



I fhall here fe'ledl thofe Vines which are moft efteemed in 

 this country, for the Hothoufe, Vinery, and the Natural 

 Wall ; and give a Ihort defcription of each. t 



