ON THE MANAGEMENT * 
'This is the moll; favourable indication which can happen 
at the critical feafon of the Vine’s flowering ; for I have con- 
flantly obferved the grapes to fet well, and the growth of the 
berries to have been extremely rapid, when the Vines have been 
in this flate. 
Pull off the fuperfluous Ihoots which may break out in va- 
rious parts of the old wood during the fummer, and dlveft the 
young Ihoots of all their laterals likewife, whenever they ap- 
pear. This may be done without referve, or having the leafl: 
regard to the prefervation of the wood ; becaufe every Vine- 
Ihoot that was left more than twenty feet long at the 1 all: year’s 
pruning, with intent to produce a crop of fruit, mull be cut 
down nearly to the bottom at the next winter’s pruning. 
But all the reft of the Vines, that were cut down at the laft 
year’s pruning, I will fuppofe one at every other rafter, muft 
be trained with one Ihoot each, exadlly the fame in every re- 
fpedt as in the preceding feafon. 
When grapes are at the laft fwelling'*, and till they are 
nearly on the point of being ripe, the Vines will require a 
plentiful fupply of water, and efpecially if the feafon Ihould 
prove hot and dry. Few plants perfpire fo abundantly as the 
Vine, 
^ The laft fvvelling of grapes commences at the time they begin to be tranfpa- 
rent. At this period, the red, black, See. grapes begin to change from green to 
red, black, &c. refpeefively. 
