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Show Vi Vi VI vided with an Inftrument, they call a Crucciolo, having an Handle of Wood like that of a large Augar, and the Body ofIron four Feet long, and better than half an Inch in diameter, at the End of which there is a Nich fomething like an Half-moon, making this Figure, they, the Ground, (of which thofe made of wild Chefnut, the Coppices of which they cut once It is 7 be from th beft, if eafi Vines md in feven or eight Years, for refifting both Wet and Dry, are accounted the beft): and much y Importance of Grapes e had, but when they begin to fhoot, they tie them to thefe with the fmall Twigs of Broom or Ofiers, and fo vifiting them frequently in the Courfe of the Summer to keep them ty’d, as alfo to yy cout littl om Vines of nip off luxuriant Branches, they let them remain till the Dog-days are over; when they clear them of fome of their Leaves, that the ill bear fome F mofi a after twifting the End of the Cutting, put it therein, and fo force it down to the Bottom of the Hole, where theythen leaveit, and afterwards fill up the Vacancywith fine fifted Earth E the Vine o3 y Operation. 5. The Plantation having been made in the manner before related, the firft Culture of it is perform’d different Ways; which, as one of them has been practis’d but of late Years, they maybe term’d the Old and the Modern. or Sand, obferving to tread the Earth clofe to the Plants, which otherwife (unlefs it beftiff Land)is often inclinable to be loofe and dry, According to the old Way, about a Month efpecially if Rain does not foon followtheir after the Planting, when the y beginto fhoot, Planting ; and it is incredible how many Vines they cut off the Tops of the Plants juft above three Perfons can in this manner plant in one the fecond E I e the Grou and Day, viz. upwards of Two thoufand. As the Cuts are of a good Length, there generally remain about two Feet or better of them above the Ground, when planted, and fometimes more. When, asit frequently hap- pens, they find the Earth fhallow, fo that in the trenching theyarrive at prime Rock, or a cold bleakith Clay, at the Depthofabout three Feet, and therefore they trench not lower, theyplant the Depthof two anda quarter, or two and an half Feet; fhallower than which they never plant, and even then, if the Bottom be Clay, theywill do but little ; andif rocky, are apt to fuffer in the Summer by dry hor Weather, (tho? if once they ftrike their Roots if not a Month, fooner. N. B. This § lage and Plantation is per= form’d at any time be November az March, in dry, but not froly Weather; fi then the frozen Earth in wor king won into the Bottom of the Trench, where ake their princi Roots, it retains fuch a Frigidity . ey will thrive but badly in it; which will be the Cafe alfo if the Ground be labour’d too this Ty perform’d in February, b after ty the Frofts is over, and may be planted at any time between that and April; Vines fhoot and grow at Libertytill the third Year, (that is, when they have been p three Years compleat) ; then opening the Earth about each Plant in March, or towards the eginning of April, to the Depth of about a Foot, they, with their Hand, clear awaythe fuperficial Roots, and then throwin two Hand- fuls of good half-confum’d Sheeps Dung, or elfe of Lupines that have been parboil’d ; after this is done, it is proper to put them in Waterf or all a Supply unlefs they have Occafion with them to Places of fome contiguous Plants that have mie ’d and in moift, warm Weather they lay thofe Shoots down better than a Foot i 2 é jor Y L Ve 45, any new keep their gone off from it, to ripenit, and give nd Vigour; but not fo as to let the Ends Bunches the Ground, or be fo near the Rains, Grapes ; afe’d therewith by Ut would be apt to rot the in Chianti (where the Vines, though mojft abundant in the Produé of their , are not fo lavifh in their Shoots, but are nod Order, by a Hand thatis toleis incredible how exatily even s are kept, about the He of four rom the Ground,1, bi the beaut Profpect before-mention d. it, when tender, from being broken by the A Month or thereabouts after Planting, when the young Plants begin to fhoot, they fing Seafon: when having prun’dit, leaving but one Eye, they put a Stick that is fome- prune them juft above the firft Eye that remains out of the Earth, whereat, when they (as they naturally will) have made their it with a green Bulruth toafinal] Stick, to keep Vinds, andfo let it remain till the next Dref- be few Shoots to eafe them of ) whilHt ripen: Wherefore, that the Strength of the Plant may not belefened or impaired thereby, they generally crop them off, after which they let the Vines remain ’till pretty early in the Spring, when the intermediate Crop of Ca flowers or Brocoli of Caul: s, is taken o it of its fuperficial The Modern Wayis as follows : in and the intern requite the Expence of Cultu Sort of Kidney-Beans they continue to tie them beftow fubftantial Sticks on them, whereto they tie them with Broom-twigs, or {mall Offers, when they begin to be ina pretty good State of Be ring, producing twoorthr large Bunches of Gray which of the antecedent Year) ripen well, not to the full of their Bearing ’till or fifth Year: However, N.B. What is before fa more or lefs; they put out, are the ftrongeft, and appear the moit thriving, they carefully and gently, with rally éfteem’d to be melio Feet long, one of which, or more, goes ae the Days, or oftner, if the Weather chance to be Wet, taking awayall the new Shoots, which they will abundantly make, ever leaving only the Principal Shoot 3 which, that it may not be prejudic’d by the Winds, or the Feet of the People, (who frequently, during the Progrefs of the Melons fown between them, muft 80to nip off the running Branches, and cultiVatethem, and who at the fame time with great anticipate the others, many are loft; whereas this Way, few, ifany, fail. Fuly, before the Entrance of the Dog-days 3 at which time they nip off the Headofit which Diligence they renew every eight or ten they thofe ordered the other Way three or four Years; and this is withal the furer Way of the two; fince in cutting off the Heads otf fo that they can difcern which, of the feveral the Thumb, rub offall of them, except one, which they judge to be the ftrongeft, and, for the moft part, the neareft the Ground; alfo to rub otf any newShoots that they make, vifiting then for that End; asalfoto crop off the lavilh Tops of the Shoots, only three or fourtimes in the Summer 5 and the next Year, in Drefii , they Shoots, towards the Beginning of Fune, and whichchecks its Luxuriancy, andrenders the Fruit, which it will then begin to have in {mall Bunches of nine or ten Grapes each, 1s above above ins a Foot in Height, r does not prejudice the youn 153 to which they now give fomewhat more fubftantial Sticks, whereto thing more fubftantial, of between three and four Feet long, to fupport it from time to time, tying the Shoot to it till the Month of nd cl and manure Roots, in the Manner before deferib’d in vation of thofe the Year they drefs the ‘ the Gr and endeavour to le times the principal Shoots will bear Fruits in {mall Bunches of five or fix Grapes each; bu as they are always late, fo they will not one Eye upon it; lo it as tha k is well « Shoots they continue ’til] the Month of O: ber, (though unlefs there be freq there will, about the Beginning of area. Vines as low as may be, for the Fruit to enjoy the warm Reflexion of the Earth after the Sunare it pens, it proves very luxuriant, they nip off its Top: And this rubbing off of the young or to fell, at a zy from the feventh Year forward, é the loweft Hea ey CaN, provided uf Ls of the they gentlytie, as foon as it, toa fmall Stick; and if, as it often hap. ing the Heads of them and this they term PropagiShoots that they cut off or two under Ground, rubbing the Part cut over with fome of the contiguous Earth; and then upon its fhooting, take the principal Shoot, (gently cleaning away the reft) andfix whilft as for better andlarger, tying the Remainder ofthe Planted as foon as cut off in the dy ing : but if faid Shoot to the Stick: In the next Year they that Conveniency is not to be had, they may be order it in the fame manner, and foontill the brought from any reafonable Diftance, their Cut- feventh Yearafter planting, when it begins to Ends only being ty’d up, and coverd from the give Fruit to purpofe; and then, at Drefling, Air with Mofs, Straw, or the like; or if [rom they generally leave but one Head on the @ Sreater, with fome Earth about them, and may moftt vigorous Plants, and only two Eyes on be kept, burying the Cut-Ends in the Gr und, till that, and ftake them with fubftancial Stakes of Such time as they can be usd: But juft before better than an Inch diameter, and near fix the Cuttings, they are objerv’d to do beft wh if they have made more Shoots than one, as mojt ofthem wil have done, they, as before, cut them fo let them remain, and fhoot out at Pleafure, only after the Melons, &c (which, as is faid before, are planted or rais’d in the Vaca ies) are gather’d, they dig, and fow, at Diftances, the Ground with B Beans, Turnips, Beets, or the | in the Rock they do well enough) and yield which, with a fharp Inftrument (either a Bill the beft Wine that ismadein the Plains; which, or ftrong Pruning-knife) and a fteady Hand, however, tho’ planted with the fame Sort of they cut off the Headof the Plant juft below Vines as thofe of the Mountains, and even of the loweft Shoot, whichis fometimes a Finger Cuttings brought from thence, never produce near fo good Wines as thofe that grow there, notwithftanding the Grapes ripen three Weelks, Fruit may ripen the better. i N.B. Jn Dreffing them after the fixth Year, Convenience, do ing to its full Bearing, is in refpett to the Quantity of for as to the Year, (being duly-tultiva : coming fromit riche and in Chia nti they mix not with their beft Grapes thofe of th Produé of Vines ofa les Age than f and pretend they are alwa y Years. ines being, by one or other of thofe Methods, brought to afull Bearing-State, they muift be annually drefs’d, eccording to the Vigourofthe Plant, and duly ftak?d. In Dreffing, to thofe of moderate Strength and Vigour, they leave but one Eye, or, at moft two; and to the moft ftrong and vigorous, but three or four at the very moit ; and |