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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44920	The compleat vineyard, or, A most excellent way for the planting of vines not onely according to the German and French way, but also long experimented in England : wherein are set forth the whole circumstances necessary for the planting a vineyard ... / by William Hughes.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1665 (1665)	Wing H3333; ESTC R5783	23,228	38

these plants as also the young ones ought to be set a yard or very nigh a yard distance squarely each from other that you may have a convenient passage between the rowes if it be in a vineyard not onely to mould dung and weed them almost as you do your hops but also to proin to break off the superfluous leaves and branches and to gather the grapes when they be ripe and such other conveniences as are required I shall make it more plain by an example or two Example If you have a piece of ground prepared as we have before shown and that you would have it planted after the German manner or as some now use in England you may suppose at each of these prlcks to be set a Plant a yard distance each from other squarely And set in the ground slope-wayes along the row with the tops up the hill and so have you room to pass between them which way you please neither do they incumber the ground so much but that it may bear them The French way of planting The French manner of planting as it was learnt of them and is now used in some places of England is this Example They having prepared their ground ready as is before shown viz. laid sloping they lay about two foot even and then about a yard they rise somewhat higher and then even and then rais'd in a kinde of a little berry or bury as it were and so they do all through the piece of ground they intend to plant as thus suppose a Plant or Vine at each of these pricks the lowest ground the highest ground the highest and broadest part the lowest part being plain Note Here note that you do not let your Plants grow high too quickly but every year by degrees as the Stock or Body of your Tree increaseth in bigness and substance If they be thus thick planted one stock is enough to grow up from each plant or root But if they are planted after the Dutch way you may sometimes let two or three grow up CHAP. VI. April THere is little to be done in this Moneth unless it be so that you could not or by any neglect you have not ordered them in the fore-going Moneths as is there set down in such case you may both dung and plant as is before exprest Also you may weed in this Moneth and such other operations as you shall find necessary CHAP. VII May. Of the taking up of your young Plants When to take up your young plants IF the Spring be very forwardly and the weather good and seasonable you may take up your Plants which were set in the ground in bundles in or about March and plant them according as I have said in that Moneth of the other Plants but if the Spring be not forwardly and the season very good it is best to let them alone till June Note the best way to know when they be ready is to observe the Vine leaves as thus when they are pretty broad and some of them begin to look of a grass green colour then is in nigh ready to take them up for then have they a little shot forth as you will find The French fashion The French they cut out their Plants when they proine and presently plant them where they intend they shall grow or else in some Nursery to remove afterward Observe The time when it is good to break off superfluous branches That if your Vines be forwardly you may towards the latter end of this Moneth break off some of the leaves where they grow too thick and some of the long branches or tops that small part I mean which is above or beyond the bunch where they grow too thick or two or three together as your reason may best instruct you and have a care in breaking that you break not off the young bunches with them Note you may also break off the young springs that spring up from the root of the Tree if there come up more then you would willingly have to grow observing to leave so many young ones to grow up to supply where is wanting How your Vines are supported and tyed and as they grow in length tie them up with Rushes Saggs small Wit hs or such like things or else nail them up with leathers if it be by a Wall or House but in a Vineyard they are supported by sticks fit for the same purpose as before If the weather prove very hot in this Moneth after you have planted your young Plants you must water them a little only to keep them moist not so much to keep them very cold for then they will not grow so well nor so fast Now the reason why it is necessary to break off leaves and branches at such times is because when such superfluous branches are taken away needs must the Tree have the more force and nourishment for that which is left CHAP. VIII June When to take your young plants HEre is further to be noted that if the Spring be backwardly you ought not to take up your young Plants namely the bundle or bundles which you put in the ground in March untill this Moneth as you may observe by the Vine leaves so your ground being prepared and made ready plant them as I have before set down How to defend the root of the tree from much heat or wet And if the parching heat of the Sun do offend the root of the Vine or dry the ground too fast you may prevent it with the help of boards stones c. setting or laying them at the root of the Tree And if by much rain in Winter the wet offend the said Vines you may prevent that also with the use of boards c. Also it is necessary if the Spring be backwardly in this Moneth to break off some of the leaves and branches according as is said in May. When to water the young plants Further observe that if the weather prove very hot and dry after you have planted your young Plants you must water them a little only to keep them moist The time when your Vines begin to flower About the tenth of this Moneth your Vines begin to flower by which it is by some observed a plentiful or scarce year of Grapes CHAP. IX July Grapes how they ripen best IN the latter end of this Moneth it is very necessary that we take notice where the leaves or long shouts or branches grow too thick and break them off but see that you do not break them off so that all the bunch will be exposed to the Sun nor to leave it so if you can help it that it will be always in the shade but that it may be a little shaded and sometimes in the Sun and so will they ripen the more kindly CHAP. X. August IN this Moneth you may also break off some of the leaves according as is said in July and