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ON THE MANAGExMENT 
dant a crop j but thi-s temptation fhould be withftood, as a 
few bunches, in an high ftate of perfection, are preferable to 
numbers in a lefs ; Befides, the future fuccefs of the Vines de- 
pends much on a judicious management in this particular: 
Therefore, in cafe the fhoots, which are pruned to about 
twenty-two feet, fhould fhew two or three bunches at almofl 
every eye, which they will frequently do, not more than nine 
cr ten of the young flioots fhould be permitted to hand, viz. 
the leading or top flioot, and four or five on each fide; and 
the flioots that remain fliould be divefted of all but one bunch 
on each, which fhould be the bunch wEIch is the heft propor- 
tioned and mofi; regularly formed. The flioots fliould be left 
at regular diflances, that Is, about four or five feet apart on each 
fide : Obferve alfo, to leave one flioot as near the bottom as It 
can be got. Thefe fhoots fliould be trained regularly on each fide 
of the rafter, and the top of each fhoot fhould be pinched off as 
foon as they are grown to a fufficient length, and begin to in- 
terfere with the adjoining fhoots above ; or, in general, let the 
flioots be flopped at the fecond or third joint above the bunch. 
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Great attention will be required during the time the Vines 
are in flower. Should the weather prove hot and dry, and ac- 
companied with brifk winds at that critical period, the berries 
of many kinds of grapes (particularly the blue Frontinac, white 
Sweetw^ater, and black Damafcus) will be liable to fall off at the 
time of their fetting, and the berries that remain wdll, in ge- 
neral, be very fmall, and without Hones. This proceeds from 
the 
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