TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



if properly managed, they will bear fome fruit the firft year 

 after planting. One of the ftrongeft fhoots muff be left nearly 

 at full length, cutting it as high as trie uppermoft full bud, 

 leaving nothing but round well-ripened wood. If there are 

 three {hoots, the remaining two fhould be cut fo as to leave 

 only two full eyes upon each, which fhould be trained at full 

 length, as before directed, to produce fine wood for next 

 year. The fhoot which was trained the preceding year fhould 

 then be cut down, leaving only two ftrong eyes to produce 

 wood for the following year ; and fo on -every year, -cutting 

 the branches alternately ; by lb doing, you will be able to 

 keep your walls always covered with fine healthy bearing 

 wood. Thus a great deal of time is faved in furniihing hot- 

 houfes, vineries, &c. 



This method of laying is praclifed with great fuccefs by 

 many nurferymen in the neighbourhood of London ; in par- 

 ticular by MefTrs. Gray and Wear at Brompton-park nurfery, 

 and by Menrs. Kirke at Brompton ; each of whom raifes an- 

 nually feveral hundred plants, for which they find a great 

 demand. 



If any Vines that have been railed from feed fhould not 

 prove to be of a good flavour, they will be very fit to graft 

 or inarch the firasr forts of Vines on : as the coarfer forts grow 

 more vigorous than the finer, they are, for that reafon, fitter 

 for grafting or inarching. 



The beft manure for Vines is a mixture of vegetable 

 mould*, rotten fpit dung, and frelh loam (turf and all); 

 this fhould be thrown in a heap, and frequently turned,, for 

 jsl year or two before it is ufed. 



* For producing vegetable mould fee p. 77= 



