GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 
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WATERING THE VINE. 
A lthough it is necefTary that the fituation of the 
Vine (hould be perfedlly dry, and more efpecially in a 
cold climate where the winters are frequently very fevere, yet 
Vines require a plentiful fupply of water during fummer, par- 
ticularly in a hot dry feafon, and at the time of the fwelling 
of the grapes. / 
In hot countries, the Vine is faid to grow the moft luxuri- 
ant in a fituation which is near the water but it is generally 
allowed, 
® The Patriarchs and Prophets frequently reprefent, in Scripture, the flourifti- 
ing ftate of a nation, a tribe, or family, under the emblem of a Vine growing near 
water. 
“ It was planted in a good foil by great waters, that it might bring forth 
branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly Vine.” £zf/^/V/xvii. 8 . 
“ Thy mother is like a Vine in thy blood, planted by the waters : She was fruit- 
ful and full of branches, by rcafon of many waters.” Ezekiel xix. lo. 
“ Jofeph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well j whofe branches 
run over the wall.” Gen. xlix. 22. The Vine indeed is not exprefsly named here, 
but 
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