ON THE MANAGEMENT 
8d 
wood. In order to make the eyes pufh more generally, it will 
be proper, as foon as the fap appears in motion, to keep the 
houfe, for a fliort time, a few degrees warmer than ufual, viz. 
in the morning the Thermometer fhould be five or fix degrees 
above temperate, and in the day-time the houfe fhould be 
kept as warm as the weather will permit : It will alfo be ne- 
ceflary to guard that part of the ftem of eachVine, which is on 
the outfide of the houfe, againfi: the approach of froft, as one 
fevere night would greatly injure, if not totally deftroy, the 
hopes of the crop. 
As foon as the fap rifes, its motion is exceedingly rapid ; 
and, if part of the ftem be expofed to the external air, a fevere 
froft would entirely ftop its circulation. The young flioots 
and leaves inftantly contract, and, during the froft, appear in 
a flirivelled ftate j to prevent which, let the part expofed be well 
guarded by wrapping it round with mofs, faftened by ftrands 
of bafs matting, to a competent thicknefs. This covering 
fhould be permitted to remain till the fpring frofts are entirely 
over; and, when this covering is taken oft, let the ftem of the 
plant be made clean by well waftiing. 
When Vines break out freely, they will pufti at almoft every 
eye, from the top to the bottom of the ftioots, nearly at the 
fame time, and the fhoots in general will £hew two or three 
bunches each. It will be proper, however, to diveft the Vines 
of their fupernumerary ft:ioots, as foon as can be done with pro- 
priety, 
