OF THE VINE. 
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priety, as it will greatly contribute to invigorate the remain- 
ing fhoots. 
It is very eafy to diflinguilh which will make the moil: pro- 
mifing flioots, even as foon as the eyes begin to break ; and by 
the time the fhoots get to be three or four inches long, the 
bunches are very diflinguifhable. In fome kinds, the rudiment 
of the bunches ftand fo prominent as to be very vifible, even 
at the breaking of the eye. 
The leaves of the young fhoots generally ftand fingle at the 
hrft:, fecond, and third, and, in fome kinds, at the fourth and 
fifth joints, and afterwards form in pairs, either with bunches 
or tendrils. And what is very remarkable, and differs from the 
ordinary courfe of nature in other forts of fruit, is, that the 
bunch is produced from the fide of the flaoot oppofite to the 
leaf, and comes out from the naked part thereof, being neither 
connected with the leaf, nor the eye, nor the rudiment of 
either. The bunches appear at the third, fourth, fifth,^ and 
fixth joints ; from the fixth forward, the leaves form in pairs 
with the tendrils. When Vines have been very vigorous, and 
exceedingly prolific, I have fometimes feen bunches at the 
feventh, eighth, and once at the ninth joint j but an inflance 
of this laft is very rare. 
When Vines fhew bunches plentifully, it often induces the 
perfon intrufted with their management to leave too abun- 
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