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the Vine, as much of the wood as was perfedlly ripe has 
been left. — In this part you have fhoots with eighteen, fomc 
“ with twenty-two eyes. Each of thefe (if one may judge 
from preceding years) will throw out a fhoot, bearing, upon 
an average, of the fhoots in the whole Vine, two clufters and 
** a half; for the Gardener affures me, that the clufters are 
** from one to four on a fhoot. Pleafe to obferve likewife, 
** that each ftioot on that of the preceding year, which had 
“ numerous eyes left on, is not lefs prolific than the fhoots of 
** a fmaller fraternity. Had the Vine been always pruned in 
“ this manner, and allowed to expand itfelf, (as it has been 
** fufFered to do thefe three or four years paft in particular) 
** it is incredible what furface the main ftem might have fufiiced 
“ to cover. 
** The foil is a light, loofe, brownifti mould, lying about two 
** feet thick on a loofe fand, with coarfe gravel, and at the 
** depth of twenty feet you come to the water.” 
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