4 § The Englijh Gardner. 
fprouts fpring out that may rob ydur fruit, or any way hin¬ 
der it as to its growth or ripening, you are to cut or pull them 
awayjonly if any branch comes forth inconvenient places ei¬ 
ther to lay for increafe,or to fupply in place of fome too old, 
you are to preferve it, and help it, that it may be the ftronger 
for any the aforefaid purpofes, remembring that young are 
more plentiful in bearing than old, befides the handfome- 
nefs 5 your viny is then too old, when it fends forth but few 
or weak ftarveling (hoots, and bears but little in comparifon 
to what it had wont to do: Now in cafe your Vine do not 
thrive, and bring its fruit to that perfedion it formerly did, 
and that the caufe was not through the unfeafonablenefs of 
the year or weather,then you are to confider the nature and 
temper of the ground,from whence your Vine hath its nourifh- 
ment,whether it be not too hot and dry,which oft is accom¬ 
panied with barrennefs j in fuch a cafe you are fcmetime in 
the Winter feafon to open the ground fome compafs, where 
the roots run either more or lefs,according as your Vine is in 
age or largenefs ofgrowth,becaufe the older you Vine is, the 
further it doth fetch its nourifhment, and accordingly to be 
helped 5 firft cutting the ends of fuch roots you meet with, 
and laying fome good mold,or mold mingled with very rot¬ 
ten dung,or having firft laid the mold to the roots, you may 
fpread fome dung upon the earth, or pour fome quantity of 
beaft blood, the which in (liorttime will fb renew your Vine 
that it will become as yoUng again y and thus yob may renew 
and help your Vines with foil, either of a hot or colder na¬ 
ture, as you fee caufe, and as I have formerly direfted be¬ 
fore fpeaking of Wall-trees and their ordering y this fore- 
mentioned Husbandry will cum the changing of your Vine 
leaves either red or yellow; when it happens in the growing 
time of the year, except it proceed from fome other defeft 
in the root or body,as rottennefs, or worm-eating, or fome 
other accidental chance., the which it may poffibly cure by 
breeding new roots, and newfHoots in place of the other ; 
do but remember that the ext reams of either heat or cold* 
wet 
