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TREATISE ON THE CULTURE" AND 



year's wood, cutting it perfectly fmooth and a little rounding: 

 at the lower end, and as near to a joint of the old wood as 

 poffible. The upper end fhould alfo be cut fmooth and 

 Hoping towards the wall ;. but if they are planted in beds or 

 borders, let the cut always face towards the North. When 

 cuttings are planted againft piers or walls, let it be at about 

 a footdiftant from each other, according to the vacant fpace, 

 and fo deep as tohave the fecond eye level with the ground ; 

 remembering always to rub off the lower eye. By fo doing,, 

 if no accident happens to the top bud, there will be a lhoot 

 produced from each eye, with a little one under, which 

 fhouM always be rubbed off as foon as it begins to fwell ; for 

 if fuffered to grow to any conliderable fize you will be in dan- 

 ger of injuring the large one in rubbing the fmali one off. 

 Remember alfo to pick off all the runners and fide-fhoots, as 

 before directed, leaving only two fhoots, which fhould be 

 trained at their full length. About January or February they 

 may be pruned, leaving one or two eyes on each according: to 

 the ftrength of the fhoot, which fhould be managed as {halt 

 be more fully explained hereafter. 



In the nrft year, efpecially if the Summer be dry, and: 

 proper attention be not paid to the watering of them, they 

 will make but little progrefs ; but in the fecond year you will 

 plainly difcern which is the ftrongeft plant, which, only fhould 

 be left to fill up the vacant fpace on. the wall : the reft fhould. 

 be taken up and planted in other filiations where they are: 

 wanted. 



Mr. Speechly and others practife a method of propagating; 

 the Vine from one eye and a few inches of the preceding 

 year's wood, which he prefers to thofe raifed by cuttings in 

 the common way, for the following reafons ; " They have 



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