ON THE VINERY. 
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four eyes, and the reft to from twenty to twenty-five eyes each, 
the latter operation being intended to produce fruit, and the 
former to make bearing wood againft another year. 
By the end of the fecond year after planting, the Vines will 
have extended their roots to almoft every part of the border : 
And as at this tender age the roots are very liable to receive 
injury by fevere frofts, I would advife the borders to be covered 
the thicknefs of three or four inches, with long dead ftrawy 
dung. Dung taken from the outfides of old hot-beds is ex- 
ceedingly proper for this purpofe. There is a kind of fpirit 
in dung which produces warmth, and thereby prevents the 
froft from penetrating the ground, efpecially if the dung be 
laid to a confiderable thicknefs. 
This method of covering the border ftiould be pradlifed every 
winter, while the Vines are young; but then the dung Ihould 
conftantly be removed from the border as foon as the winter 
frofts are over: A little of the very rotten dung may be permit- 
ted to remain, as this, with the addition of a little rotten cow- 
dung, fliould be worked into the border every fpring Great 
care. 
As it is very important to know what kind of manure is the m.oft proper for 
Vines, and alfo the moft eligible feafon of applying it, I truft the following extract 
will prove highly acceptable and fatisfadfory to my readers : 
“ My landlord told me, that he had an intimate acquaintance, a Vigneron, at 
“ Verzenay, who was reckoned one of the moll attentive and careful ma- 
“ naj^ers 
