ON THE VINERY. 
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attended with the mofi; fatal confequence. If the weather 
fhould become hot and dry, the flowers of many kinds of grapes 
are liable to fall off : A cold dark feafon alfo will fometimes 
produce the fame bad effedt. I may add too, that an extreme 
degree of fire-heat will prove equally prejudicial. 
The air in the houfe fhould not, at any time, during the 
flowering feafon, exceed eighty- four or eighty-five degrees of 
Fahrenheit’s Thermometer ; and, in a dark cold feafon, fhould 
be kept up to fixty-four or fixty-five degrees. 
The furface of the border fhould be kept in a moifl: fiate, 
by being conflantly fprinkled with water, for grapes fet befl in 
a clofe fultry moift heat. 
As foon as the grapes are grown to the fize of fmall fliot, the 
bunches of the clofe-growing kinds fhould be thinned in the 
manner already defcribed. 
Pinch off the tendrils and laterals whenever they appear; 
divert the Vines of all fuperfluous flioots that may be produced 
during the fummer, that fo they may have nothing unneceffary 
to fupport. Keep the flaoots, as they advance, regularly fafteU'^ 
ed to the trellis and rafters, and never fuffer them to grow in a 
rude and diforderly manner. Vines managed in a mafterly 
manner fhould always be kept in a neat Rate, and therefore 
will require almofl daily attendance. 
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