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posure; and many small plantations for home use have no particular 

 pronounced exposure and yet do well one year with another, when on 

 relatively high well drained ground. 



PLANTING. 



The easiest and quickest way to get a vine to bearing age and size is to 

 plant good, clean, thrifty, well-rooted one-year-old vines. If the cost of 

 these should deter one, then take cuttings. These can be had, generally, 

 for the asking of any reliable grower. One point should be well watched 

 and that is to plant only the most generally approved varieties. The 

 home grower should not attempt to experiment with varieties in his first 

 plantings. The first endeavor should be to secure a few bearing vines of 

 standard varieties. The work of bringing these to fruitfulness will 

 usually result in awakening interest in the choicer varieties, and in due 

 time one may indulge his taste for experiment by trying a few of the 

 more promising new ones. 



One step in the planting of a tree, shrub or vine that needs to be kept 

 constantly in mind is the fact that one is planting a crop that will re- 

 quire years to reach its full development. Accordingly, the best of care 

 should be given to the work of planting. A tree, shrub or vine well 

 planted is half established. A common practice in Bavaria, when planting 

 hops, is to thoroughly pulverize the ground to the depth of thirty to forty 

 inches, and yet this crop is expected to remain only twelve to four- 

 teen years, how much more thoroughly then should the soil be prepared for 

 a crop that is to remain for a period of twenty-five to fifty years or even 

 longer. 



VABIETIES. 



The first problem that confronts the one who would put out a few 

 grape vines, is as to the varieties. This opens one of the questions upon 

 which a very wide diversity of opinion generally prevails, but fortu- 

 nately for the beginner, the consensus of opinion of our best growers 

 upon this point, so far as Western Oregon is concerned, limits the number 

 of first choice varieties for home use to the following: Moore, Worden, 

 Concord, Diamond, Niagara, Delaware, Isabella, Green Mountain, Brigh- 

 ton. In many localities the Black Hamburg does excellently, and White 

 Chasselas, Red Burgundy, Sweetwater, Black July, Muscatel, Red Moun- 

 tain, Chasselas Fountainbleu, Muscat and a few others in favored locali- 

 ties and under proper treatment, as in the vicinity of Forest Grove, yield 

 very good crops of choice fruit. It is best under all conditions to con- 

 sult local growers before planting. Keeping in mind that what may be 

 best for the man who grows grapes as a business may not be the most 

 desirable for the man who would only plant for home use. 



The late A. R. Shipley, writing in 1892, said:* "For the farmer who is 

 planting for his own use I would recommend Delaware, Concord, Hartford 

 and Isabella, and perhaps Herbert and Worden." Since that time Worden 



* Oregon Report, 1893. 



