STATURE OF THE VINE. 
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cluflers on one (lioot, I was tempted to examine my neigh- 
“ hour’s Vine, and upon fome vigorous (lioots which had been 
“ left with nine or ten eyes or gems, to fill up vacant places, I 
reckoned above forty clufters. This will ferve to give you 
fome idea of this wonderful tree. At the height of one foot 
“ and a half from the ground, the trunk is only eight inches 
in circumference : Below that pitch are fome irregular pro- 
tuberances, which it would be unfair to ground any calcu- 
“ lations upon j however, not to keep back any thing which 
“ tends to information, the circumferences, where thefe protu- 
“ berances are the fulleft, I have meafured, and find to be 
thirteen inches. From this fwollen part ifiue fome trifling 
** (hoots, and belonging to it are fmall (lumps of other (lioots, 
“ formerly cut down, which feem to have occafioned the irre- 
“ gularity here mentioned. Still lower, and within an inch or 
two of the ground, the (lem girts but between nine or ten 
“ inches ; finally, clofe to the ground are three or four diva- 
“ ricating branches of a very moderate fize, which furnifli the 
wall with fomewhat more than a fourth of its foliage ; fo that 
“ by the trunk girting eight inches, is meant the main trunk. 
The Vine has been pruned fome weeks : The number of 
eyes left upon this year’s (hoots is various in proportion not 
“ only to the vigour of the flioot, but of the fpace alfo to be 
“ filled up. — In mod places, from three to five eyes is the 
‘‘ general dandard ; but there are many dioots with from 
“ eight to ten eyes left upon them ; and at the extremities of 
“ the 
