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122 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



After a three years' trial, I thought I was warranted to fol- 

 low the fame practice with the whole ; and in the year 1793 

 I lent, for the ufc of his Majefty and the Royal family, three 

 hundred and feventy-eight l^afkets of Grapes, each weighing 

 about three pounds, without planting a fingle Vine more than 

 there were the preceding year, in which I was able to fend 

 only fifty-fix bafkets of the fame weight ; and thofe fo bad 

 and ill-ripened that I was afhamed of them, as they were not 

 fit to be fent to the table. 



In this year there was more than a quarter of the crop; 

 deftroyed by birds and infects, and rotted by the wet. . 



Although the above ftatement is within the bounds of truth,, 

 it may appear to, the reader like an exaggeration ; but it is in 

 the power of every one who will follow the directions here 

 given to prove the advantage that will accrue from this, 

 method of training. 



The above experiments were all made on the natural walls,, 

 and I hope will be fufficient to convince every unprejudiced, 

 perfon of the great advantage that the Terpentine method of 

 training Vines poffelfes above the common way. 



It may be proper to obferve, that the moots mould be 

 brought as near as poffible from the bottom of the Vine, that 

 the wall' may be well covered. When, the walls are high, and; 

 the moots from the terpentine branches ftrong, we fometimes, 

 let them remain ; but if the walls are low,, and the terpentine; 

 branches produce, weak moots, we cut them out in the Au- 

 tumnal pruning, and train up the ftrongeft of the young; 

 wood in their room.; as directed in. the explanation, of 



