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ON THE VINERY. 
m \ s - Jfoon as the leaves are fallen, it is a proper tlrh'e to pr'uW^- 
the .Vines but as the method of training Vines, which I am 
now going to enter upon, is quite new to the public, and be- 
caufe it pleafes more, and niakes a greater imprefllon upon the 
mind, to fee things reprefented thamto read a defcription of thern^ 
in words, I have given a plan 'exhibiting the principals in fix' 
different flages. The temporary plants not requiring any par- 
ticul-ar mode of training, aje.purpofely omitted in this fketch. 
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The {boots of the principals muft alJL be cut'down. to two, 
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three, or four eyes, making -cbqice of the befl: and boldeft eye- 
to terminate the (hoot. The (hoots fhould be brought down 
as near to an horizontal pofition, as can be without ftraining, 
and then tied to the trelli^.:'*,, - 
Iqis eafy to conceive, tkkt-*eVery principal will- then form , a. 
figure refembling the letter .T.' ;Se'e plate iii. fig. i. - 
If the temporary plants, fhould be large, and been trained in. 
pots before planting, whiqh I have already obferved,' they vvill,, 
in general, have made good wood. The flioots of thefe may^' 
be pruned down to fromTix'to fifteen inches each,, according 
to the ftrength of the fliqot, i. e. “a weak fhoot to fix inches,. 
if moderately firong to nin^’^of' fen inches, and if very vigorous^ 
to fourteen or fifteen inchfeVr When pruned, the fhobts foould 
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be faffened to the trellis ih regular order. ; - - 
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