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they will pine and dwindle, and seldom flourish and 
become fruitful. The reason of planting the cut¬ 
tings so close, in the nursery, is to prevent their 
shooting their roots too far into the ground, which 
would render them very difficult to take up without 
damaging the root, and more tedious to plant out. 
You ought not to plant too great a variety of 
vines in your vineyard, especially where you intend 
to make wine. A sensible writer says, that a vine¬ 
yard of one acre should contain only two sorts of 
grapes ; two acres, four sorts ; if it contained three 
or four acres, he would choose no greater variety.- 
But, if it contained six, eight or ten acres, an ad¬ 
ditional number might be admitted. But then the 
best kinds should be preferred, and those that do 
FiOt come in at the same time. If this rule be not 
observed, you will be overdiurried in time of vint¬ 
age, and run the risk of having some of the fruit 
spoil upon your hands. Or, if the season proved 
unfavorable, and some were cut off by the unfriend¬ 
liness of the weather, others, which ripened later, 
might escape the injury. But, whatever be your j 
choice, as to variety, be sure to plant each sort in a i 
■ distinct quarter by itself. j 
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You are also carefully directed not to hoe, dig, I 
plough or harrow in your vineyard, nor even to walk I 
in it, when the ground is wet—for this would only | 
tend to bake the soil, and make it stiff, hard, &:c. ; 
which you know is contrary to wdiat a vineyard I 
