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very flrong wood, muH: be left to the length of twenty-one or 
twenty-two feet each, with intent to produce a full crop of 
fruit the following feafon. 
The management of the Vines the next fummer, will, in 
many inftances, be nearly the fame as in the preceding one. 
Only let it be confidered, that as the Vines have increafed in 
ftrength and lize, they will, confequently, be enabled to pro- 
duce and fupport a larger burden of fruit. 
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The crop ihould, at all times, be proportioned to the lize 
and vigour of the tree, and that in every flage j but efpecially 
while the Vines are young, it will be advifable to ufe great 
moderation as to the number of bunches which are to be 
allowed to go on to maturity. 
..The (hoots now may be laid rather clofer together than in 
the preceding feafon, and two bunches may be permitted to 
remain upon fuch (laoots as are (Irong and vigorous j and efpe*- 
cially, of thofe kinds that do not produce large bunches. It 
will be proper, hov/ever, -that the berries of the bunches, in 
general, (hould be well thinned h This work is bed: per- 
formed at the time when the berries are about the (ize of fmall 
(hot. Great addrefs is required in the performance of this 
operation ; 
* In order to thin grapes with propriety, a proper pair of fcifTors (hould be pro- 
vided. The blades (hould be made with exceeding (harp points, and not more than 
one inch and a half long : The (hanks about four inches long and quite ftraight 
The eyes fuiHciently large to contain a man’s thumb and two fingers. 
