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gree, furely, with the fame care, attention, and public en- 
couragement as much may be done in the lid; of Vines. 
This I can aver, that the method of ralfing feedling plants is 
neither uncertain nor difficult, as feed from grapes, perfedlly 
ripe, will vegetate with the utmod; facility and certainty. In 
this place it will be neceffiary to obferve, that the bunches en- 
twined together ffiould be feparated as foon as the farina has 
fallen, and the grapes begin to fweil, as the important parts of 
frudtification have then performed the office for which nature 
intended them, viz. the propagation and increafe of the fpecies. 
The grapes for feed ffiould be permitted to remain on the 
plant till they are perfectly ripe, as the feed is not till then 
quite matured, when it generally is of a very dark-brown co- 
lour. As foon as the feed is taken from the pulp, or fleffi, of 
the grape, it ffiould be laid on a ffieet of paper, or the like, in 
fome 
In Lancafhire, and fome of the adjacent counties, public annual Meetings are 
eftablifhed and held for the encouragement of increafing the variety of goofberries, 
and premiums are annually given to perfons that produce the beft new kinds. 
The acquifition of the many new and valuable kinds of this fpecies of fruit, which 
have lately been obtained from feed, may, in a great meafure, be attributed to 
this public incitement. The confequence is evident, that a fimilar eftablifhment 
for the increafing the varieties of grapes, would, undoubtedly, be crowned with 
equal fuccefs. If fuch a plan as here propofed were eftablifhed in various parts of 
the kingdom, and public notice given thereof, it would certainly excite the ad- 
mirers of this elegant branch of gardening to exert themfelves on the occafion. 
Let but the projedi be begun and tried, and, I am perfuaded, that the fuccefs it 
would be crowned with, would foon make It a fafliionable recreation. 
