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ON THE VINERY. 
It is an injudicious pracflice to endeavour to get an early crop 
from young Vines, as in that cafe it will be required to 
make fires early in the fpring, which would prove very pre- 
judicial to the Vines, by forcing them out at a feafon when 
much air cannot be given, for want of which the fhoots would 
grow weak and long-jointed. 
The latter end of February, or beginning of March, is quite 
. foon enough to begin to force. Moderate fires fhould be made 
for two or three days befores the glafTes are put on, as this will 
dry the wall, and prevent a flrong fleam from arifing in the 
houfe. The border iliould be raked fmooth ; and if a little 
fine fand be thinly fprinkled thereon, it will contribute to the 
fun’s refledtion, to the wholefomenefs of the air, and give a 
neatnefs to the houfe. 
Plenty 
“ fon. Over dunging they reckon prejudicial to Vines, caufing them to run 
“ too much to wood, giving the wine a heavinefs, and making it apt to grow 
“ mothery. But this depends on the foil ; for fome lands are fo deficient in 
“ natural fertility, that, unlefs they are dunged more than commonly, they 
“ will not yield a crop : They lay a thoufand bafkets on fuch, and fometimes 
“ even fo far as tw elve hundred. 
“ I obje.Bed that this general fpirit of dunging vineyards mufi; rob all the com- 
“ mon hufbandry in the country ; that, replied he, is of no confequence, for 
“ corn will not pay for dung where there are vineyards to demand it. Upon 
“ my doubting this, he feemed to lay it down as a maxim that could not be 
controverted.” 
MarJ})all' s Travels^ vol. iv. p. 78. 
