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bring prices sufficient to warrant the experiment in a small way at 

 least. 



The expense of all the fabrics for top and sides would, at present 

 factory prices, be about 12 cents per running yard. If thereby we 

 can escape insects, birds, grape-rot, and mildew, and at the same 

 time raise some of the finer grapes, it will compensate for the 

 trouble; remembering that the same material may, by careful 

 usage, be put on again and again for the same object. While the 

 above is not needed, and would not pay, for Concord, Ives, and 

 Hartfords, at 3 to 5 cents, wholesale, it might do to use it on the 

 Salem, Wilder, lona, or Croton, at 12 to 15 cents, wholesale. 



In city gardens, where space is very limited and close occupa- 

 tion is important, the plan shown in Fig. 4 may be adopted, of 

 planting 4 feet or 5 feet apart, and giving each vine a double spread 

 of 8 or 10 feet, one set on the lower arms, and the alternate set on 

 the middle arms, renewing all the horizontal arms each year. If 

 any, like the Agawam or Salem, prove a little shy of setting fruit, 

 give them the lower arm, and the more perfect flowering kinds, as 

 Concord and Worden, the upper. Then, when in bloom, jar the 

 upper arms, which may help fertilize the whole with pollen. With 

 the above described method, the ground, or border, should be good 

 and fed with sufficient fertilizer, as it will be closely occupied; with 

 abundant room, we would not advise this plan. 



VARIETIES. 



The Concord is the grape for the million, and can be raised al- 

 most anywhere and everywhere. A good list of black grapes is E. 

 Victor, Moore's Early, Telegraph, Hartford, Worden, Concord, 

 Herbert, or Rogers No. 44, and Wilder, Rogers No. 4. 



Red Grapes. — Brighton, Wyoming, Delaware, Lindley, Salem, 

 Jefferson, Vergennes. 



White Grapes. — Martha, Lady, Pocklington, Prentiss, Duchesse. 

 There are others nearly or quite as good, but these are in the main 

 hardy and productive. 



FERTILIZERS. 



Good, unleached wood-ashes are always suitable for any kind of 

 fruit, especially the grape. Finely-ground bone is excellent, but 

 a good superphosphate is still better, and tends to early and perfect 

 ripening of the fruit. Thoroughly composted stable manure is 



