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had 70 bunches from one shoot. The shoots that 
have borne fruit the preceding year should be cut 
out next year, except when you want to fill the 
wall, and the shoots are very strong. You will al¬ 
ways get plenty of fine healthy young wood, if you 
are careful in pruning—therefore never leave any 
but fine strong wood ; always cutting at the second, 
third, or fourth eye j remembering to rub the low¬ 
est bud oiF, and also that which comes out at the 
Joint between the new and last year’s wood. By 
these means, e^en these shortened shoots^ will bear 
as much fruit as they would in the common way of 
pruning : Beside which, you have the long branch¬ 
es of last year’s growth, trained also for bearing, 
Mr. Forsyth invariably applies a certain com¬ 
position after pruning vines, and all other species 
of fruit. For the invention of this composition, the 
British Parliament presented him with four thou¬ 
sand pounds 5 and subsequently, it was published 
for the good of the nation. He first applied it as a 
plaister, but afterward found it answer as well, to 
make it of the consistence of paint, and apply it to 
the pruned branch, with a painter’s brush. That 
this treatise may be rendered more perfect, and that 
the members of this society may have an opportu¬ 
nity to pursue Mr. Forsyth’s system ;; directions 
for making the composition, follow. 
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