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ON .VINEYARDS. 
The Vineyards abroad are formed by planting the Vines in 
rows, and by training them in a perpendicular diredlion. But 
in this country I fhould greatly prefer the mode of training the 
Vines in a lateral or horizontal form, limilar to the method 
pradtifed in Holland^ with Vines in frames, as I have already 
hinted, p. 99. and p. 128. There would be little difficulty in 
this method, as the Vines would readily be trained along fmall 
poles, not thicker than thofe ufed for hops : Thefe ffiould be 
fixed nearly parallel to the ground. Vines thus trained would 
derive, I apprehend, many advantages, not only by means of 
warmth and ffielter, but that they would moft eafily alfo be 
protedled from fpring frofls, by applying the boughs of trees, 
particularly Evergreens. The grapes alfo, let me obferve, 
would be greatly benefited by the refledlion of the foil under- 
neath. . 
, When Vines are intended to be planted on the fleeps of hills, 
and on the fides of rocks, the ground ffiould be prepared and 
formed in the manner of fteps, as in plate v. 
The Vines ffiould be planted near the angle a, and trained 
by ftakes upwards, from a towards A 
It will be abfolutely necelTary that the ground ffiould be 
lower at the angular point of every fi:ep, than at b j for with- 
out this care, the Vine-plants would lofe the advantage of 
fuch rains as fall haftily and perpendicularly. 
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