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The Englijh Gardner. 
.expe&ation is fruftrate 5 therefore as I laid, let your Plants 
be of two years growth before you re-plant them, unlefs 
you life more than ordinary diligence $ fome that have choice 
Vines, and defire to increafe them, if they cannot lay them 
on the ground,do make divers little troffs or boxes, dv„and 
fatten them in convenient places about their vines,and there¬ 
in lay feveral branches to root, and in fit feafon for planting 
cut them from the Mother-plant, and difpofe ofthem as they 
defire,only they are often to moiften them, that they may take 
the better rooting: Vines are likewife often and eafily in- 
creafed by laying down fome branches either young or old, 
(about half a foot deep in the ground or lefs) which being 
well rooted, may be cut off and planted elfewhere any time 
in Winter,and implanting, let them have as much Sun as you 
may conveniently, the pleafiire or profit, in all likelyhood 
will be the better, as to the ripening, &c. there are feveral 
ways of planting them, fome againft Houfe-fides, where in 
_ , fome places they run a great height, and 
time of the year ei- bear very much fruit, fome againft lower 
ther,Spring, winter, Walls or ButtrefTes,conftantly keeping them 
within fome finall bounds, fome Plant 
them againft Walls, but fuffer them only to run on the 
top,or Coping oftheir wall, fome againft Pales or Pole-work 
hedges or Arbors, and fome plant them after the manner of 
Vineyards in feveral ftandards, about three, four, or five, 
foot high, and about three or four foot afunder, fome ty¬ 
ing them up to ftakes, and fome without,where they bear fruit 
very prettily, and moft commonly ripen well if the ground 
and Husbandry be but good, (and the ground not too cold) 
and the kind not too tender:Now the feafon for the pruning of 
your Vines, it is any time from the fall of the lea£ to the end 
of February but moft cut them from December , to the end 
of January, or middle of February , and 
many only in fome of the twelve 
days $ I have fometimes cut Vines in 
March, but found no other inconve¬ 
nience. 
It is very good Husbandry 
when your Vine grows old 
to cut and fupply young ia 
its place, it will bear the 
better and fairer fruit. 
