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At such time as Vines are pruned, you must take a fruitful sprig, somewhat neer the top as you can, and there, as it grows, you must pick out the pith at the highest end, never cleaving it, but hollowing it with some fit instrument as well as you can, and there uphold it with a prop that it bow not down: then take some Cyre∣nian juice, as the Greeks call it, and pour it into the place that is hollow; but first
you must steep this juice in water, to the thickness of sodden wine: and this you must do for eight dayes together every day once, till the vine-branch sprout forth again. Columella saith the very same; that the vine-branch as it grows upon the Vine must be cut, and the pith of it fetched out with some fit instrument, as well as you may, out of the top without the cleaving of the branch, but the branch be∣ing whole, and still growing on the Vine, you must put into it some Benjamin or Cyrenian juice steeped in water, as was shewed before, and set it upright with a prop, that the juice may not run forth; and this is to be done for eight dayes to∣gether. So if we would procure