554 . The ordering of the Orchard. 
too hot and drie ; you muff therefore in dead of dung and fand, as in the former dc- 
fedi Is Taid, put in fome frefh loarne orfhortclay, well mixed together with fome of 
the earth, and fo let them abide, that the frofts may mellow them. And ladly, a Vine 
fometimes beareth fome (lore of grapes, but they are too many for it to bring to ripe- 
neffe ; you (liall therefore helpefuch a Vine (which no doubt is of fome excellent 
kinde, for they are mod; vfually fubiedt to this fault) by nipping away the blodomes 
from the branches, and leauing but one or two bunches at the mod vpon a branch, vn- 
till the Vine be gro wne older, and thereby dronger, and by this meane inured to bea re 
out all the grapes to ripeneffe. Thefe be all the difeafes I know doe happen to Vines : 
for the bleeding of a Vine it feldome happeneth of itfelfe, but commeth either by 
cutting it vneimely, that is, too late in the yeare, (Tor after Ianuarie,if you will be well 
aduifed, cut not any Vine) or by fome cafuall or wilfull breaking of anarmeora 
branch. This bleeding in fome is vnto death, in others it daycth after a ccrtaincfpace 
of it felfe : To helpc this inconuenience,fomehaue feared the place where it blcedeth 
with an hot iron, which in many haue done but a little good ■ others haue bound the 
barke clofe with packe-thred to day it • and fome haue tied ouer the place, being fird 
dried as well as may bee, aplaidermade with waxeroffen and turpentine whileit is 
warme. How forthe propagating of them : Y ou mud take the faired and goaled fhot 
branches of one yearcs growth, and cut them off with a peece of the old wood vntoit, 
and thefe being put into the ground beforetheendof Ianuarieatthefurthed, will 
flioote forth, and take roote, and fo become Vines of the fame kinde from whence 
you tooke them. This is the mod fpeedy way to haue increafe : for the laying downe 
of branches to take roote, doth not yeelde luch dore fo plentifully, nor doe fuckers 
rife from the rootes fo aboundantly - 3 yet both thefe waies doe yeelde Vines, that be- 
ing taken from the old dockes will become young plants, fit to bee difpofed of as any 
fhall thinkc meete. 
Chap. XI. 
The way to order and preferue grapes, fit to he eaten almost all the winter 
long, and fometimes vnto the Spring. 
A Lthough it bee common andvfuall in the parts beyond the Sea to dry their 
grapes in the Sunne, thereby to preferue them all the year, as the Raifins ofthe 
Sunncare, which cannatbeedoneinourCountrie for the want of fufficient 
heatc thereof at that time : or otherwife to feald them in hot water (as I heare) and 
afterwards to dry them, and fo keepe them all the yeare, as our Malaga Raifins arc pre- 
pared that are packed vp into Frayles : yet I doe intend to fhew you fome other waies 
to preferue the grapes of our Countrie frefh,that they may be eaten in the winter both 
before and after Chridmas with as much delight and pleafurealrnod, as when they 
were new gathered. One way is, when you haue gathered your grapes you intend to 
keepe,which mud be in a dry time, and that all the dirunke, dried, or euill grapes in e- 
uery bunch be picked away, and hauing prouided a veffcll to hold them, be it of wood 
or done which you will, and a futficient quantitie of faire and cleane drie fand ; make 
fir at u>n fuper flratum of your grapes and the fand, that is, a lay of fand in the bottome 
fird,andalay of grapes vpon them, andaky ordrowingagaineof fandvponthofe 
grapes, fo that the fand may couereuery lay of grapes a fingers breadth in thicknefTe, 
which being done one vpon another vntill the veffell be full, anda lay of fand vpper- 
mod, let the veffell be dopped clofe, and fet by vntill you pleafe to fpend them, being 
kept in fome drie place and in no feliar : let them bee wafhed cleane in faire water to 
take away the fand from fo many you will fpend at a time. Another way is (which Ca- 
merarius fetteth downe he was informed the Turkes vfe to keepe grapes ail the winter 
vnto the next dimmer) to take fo much meale of Mudard feede, as will ferue to dro w 
vpon grapes, vntill they haue filled their veffels, whereon afterwards they poure new 
wine before it hath boiled,to fill vp their veffels ther with, and being dopped vp clofe, 
fhey keepe thema certaine time, and felling them with their liquour to them that will 
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