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tluit would ripen nicely to supply the market at this late season which 

 our northern Ljrowers cannot raise at all because of not having a long 

 enough season to ripen them. Here is one immense, unoccupied field 

 that should receive the close attention of every fruit grower who desires 

 to develop the resources of our State in this particular branch of hor- 

 ticulture. 



TWO IMPORTANT POINTS. 



In planting vines I would particularly impress on your minds two 

 poin's that I consider vital. Land is cheap, give vines plenty of room, 

 twelve feet apart each way, is not far from the right distance. This 

 will cfive room for a free circulation of air and will be found better after 

 the vines, have attained age. Another vital point is to plant good, 

 strong, two-year-old vines, and plant them deeply. This is essential to 

 get the main body of the roots low enough for perpetual moisture, and 

 also low enough to be out of the way of the passing cultivator. To plant 

 deeply of course it is necessary to plow deeply in preparing the ground 

 for the young vines. 



HOW TO CULTIVATE. 



In cultivating vines. I don't know that I could give any better in- 

 struction than to insist that you should cultivate often enough to keep 

 weeds in subjection. I look on weeds as a sort of dispensation oi Provi- 

 dence to cure a man of laziness. Just keep the weeds down in the vine- 

 yard by stirring the ground, the vines will take care of themselves if 

 you take care of the weeds. 



The rule is just as essential to vines at ten years old as at one 

 year old. 



HOW TO TRAIN VINES. 



It is hard to tell on paper how to train and trim a grape vine, to 

 obtain the best results. Particularly hard for me as I am by no means 

 certain I know how myself. But in raising grapes for market, there is one 

 very important object to be held in view, and that is both the size and 

 bunch of the berry. It is impossible to obtain fine, large, perfect 

 bunches only from strong young canes. To do this it is necessary to re- 

 new each year from the base of the vine, and this is about one of the 

 hardest things a vineyardist has to accomplish. I believe that the mar- 

 ket of the future will be managed on some such plan as this, instead of 



