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stjlFcr your curiosity or avarice to tempt you to art 
infraction of this role, you will repent of it, but 
probably when it is too late. But as it is very 
natural to indulge the desire of tasting the fruit 
which one’s own hands have raised, you are per¬ 
mitted to keep some fruit upon each of the kinds of 
vine which shew it. Thus you may gratify your 
taste v/ithoLit materially injuring your vineyard. ^ 
In the fourth year, training again two branches, 
from each trained branch of the previous year, you 
will easily perceive that you will have eight branch¬ 
es growing,.under your care. This year you pro¬ 
ceed as before, humbling the vine, and proportion¬ 
ing its burdens of fruit, to its ability to bring what 
it bears to perfection. Many a blushing cluster 
will please your eye, and all will plead to be spar¬ 
ed. But attend to the rules given in the earlier 
stage of year vineyard, it is tmahle to ripen all the 
fruit it %villgenerally bear ; or if it were able, such | 
a practice would bring on premature weakness and 
decay. The treatment for future years must de^ 
pend upon your own judgment, which, if you shall i 
have carefully attended for four years, to the pre- | 
ceding rules and regulations, cannot fail to be suf* ; 
hciently enlightened, J 
I 
You will be pleased to take notice, that the I 
ground of your vineyard is to be kept continually | 
light, mellow, airy, and in proper heart. It should I 
not by any means become worse, after your vines | 
