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ON THE VINERY. 
Avould require a different management, in order to ripen the 
grapes, which would hardly be worth the additional expence 
of fuel, &c. Befides, the Vines will not make near fo great a 
progrefs, if the fruit fliould be permitted to remain. 
If no unforefeen accident happens, the Vines will, in ge- 
neral, make extraordinary flrong wood the fecond feafon, and 
the fhoots may, in general, be fuffered to grow almofi; to the 
top of the wall before they are flopped. 
The fecond year’s pruning muft be performed very different- 
ly from that of the preceding one; the fhoots of the principals 
mufl all be brought down to an horizontal portion, and pruned 
in fuch a manner as to leave a fpace of twelve or fourteen 
inches between plant and plant. 'See plate iii. fig. 2 . 
As the temporary plants are intended only to produce fruit 
for a certain period, namely, till the principals get fufficiently 
large to occupy the whole of the wall, they muft be pruned 
for fruit accordingly. A ftrong flioot may be pruned to from 
fifteen to twenty eyes for bearing ; between every two bearers, 
a flioot fhould be pruned down to two, three, or four eyes, in 
order to keep up a fucceffion of bottom-wood, till the princi- 
pals furnifh a full fupply all along the bottom of the wall. 
If all the Vines at the rafters have grown equally flrong, it 
will be proper to prune every other plant down to three or 
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