OF THE VINE. 
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the calyx adhering to, and drying upon, the germen or rudi- 
ment of the berry, and thereby preventing Its impregnation. 
Therefore, in order to have the crop fet permanent, it will be 
proper at this period to water the roots of the Vines plenti- 
fully, to keep the houfe as clofe as the weather will permit, 
and to water the walks and dues In the Hot-houfe conflantlv, 
and efpecially late in the evening, when the glades diould be 
immediately clofed. The heat of the riot- houfe will exhale 
the moifture, and raife a kind of artidcial dew, which, by 
falling upon the calyx, will caufe It to expand and fall off. By 
this means, the important parts of frudlidcation are fet at li- 
berty to perform the offices for which nature intended them, 
viz. the increafe and propagation of their fpecies. After a kind 
impregnation, the berries always fwell very faft^ 
It is not unufual to fee bunches of the white Sweetwater, 
and of fome other kinds of grapes, greatly abound with fmall 
berries, (which always are without ftones) which proceeds from 
the above recited caufe, and may be prevented by an affiduous 
attention to the foregoing rules. 
Although grapes fet bed: in a clofe moid: air, yet the Hot- 
houfe ffiould not be violently hot during the time of their 
fetting. 
When the weather is ferene, and all circumdances concur 
agreeably, tranfparent drops of dew will be obfervable in a 
morning on the angular points of the Vine leaves. 
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