ON VINEYARDS. 
^95 
The cafe is fimilar with refped to apples. It is well known 
that the fweet kinds of apples, which ripen in the fummer 
months, are very unfit for the making of cyder. And that the 
noblefi: cyder (fuch as the Styre and Cockagee) is made from 
apples not much better than wildings. 
Fourthly. I lhall not undertake here to give general diredlions 
for the management of a Vineyard ; the method of raifing 
Vine-plants, and the common procefs of a Vineyard, as prac- 
tifed abroad, having been already delivered to the public by 
much abler pens. However, I (hall beg leave to offer a few 
ideas on the fubjedl, and particularly on the mode of training 
the Vines. 
As even the moft Southern parts of this ifland are (as I have 
obferved) but nearly on the verge of the vinous latitude, every 
poffible advantage fhould be confulted refpedting the formation 
and management of a Vineyard here. 
B b 2 ’ The 
“ (after it has had time to digeft) to any cyder of that country : So I have 
“ known verjuice made of half-ripe grapes, tliat after two or three years 
“ keeping in a velTel, has become delicate wine ; and the Rhenijh wines, when 
“ tliey are newly made, are fo four, that they are not fit to drink ; but after 
“ feveral years ftanding, afford us that incomparable liquor which is called 
“ Old Hock ; and, on the contrary, fweeter liquors are apt turn four by 
“ keeping.” 
iSew Improvements of Planting and Gardening, 
by Richard Bradley, F. R, S, p, 177. 
