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platform (to be tightened with wedges,) of 

 three inch plank, eight inches high at the 

 sides, placed on heavy timbers ; a box 

 frame, that can be taken apart, of one and 

 a quarter inch boards, twelve inches high, 

 and perforated with holes, (is to hold the 

 mashed grapes,) and loose boards to lay on 

 top and fit inside. Into this frame the 

 grapes are emptied out of the mashing 

 tub — (a vessel like an inverted churn.) 

 About half the juice runs off without any 

 pressure after the screw is applied. The 

 outside of the cheese is cut down two or 

 three times and thrown on the top, and re- 

 pressed until dry. No straw or cloth is 

 used. A good brandy is distilled from the 

 pumice — or seeds and skins — after thus 

 pressed. 



Vine Culture in this Vicinity. — It is es- 

 timated that over three hundred acres are 

 now planted with the vine, within a circuit 

 of twelve miles round Cincinnati; nearly 

 two-thirds of which were in bearing last 

 year, producing, notwithstanding the rot, 

 so injurious to many, about 50,000 to 60,- 

 000 gallons of wine. 



The Catawba is our great wine grape, 

 and principally cultivated. The Cape is 

 next, though but few are planted. The 

 Isabella is not profitable for wine, and is 

 only raised for table use. 



Mr. Longworth, with unwearied zeal 

 and liberality, is still experimenting with 

 new varieties, and may yet find a rival for 

 the Catawba. R. Buchanan. 



N. B. Some vineyards, in good sea- 

 sons, have produced at the rate of 600 to 

 800 gallons to the acre ; but this is rare. 

 The usual yield is 300 to 400 gallons, 

 when there is but little rot. A bushel of 

 grapes, if well ripened, will produce three 

 and a half to four gallons of wine. 



By proper economy, a man may have a 

 vineyard of several acres in a few years, 

 without feeling the expense to be burden- 

 some. Commence by trenching one acre 

 in the winter, and planting it out in the 

 spring ; next year another acre, and so on, 

 for five or six years. After the third year, 

 he will have his own cuttings from the first 

 acre, and also grapes enough to pay for the 

 cost of planting the succeeding additions 

 to his vineyard. 



If he has suitable timber on his own 

 land, the stakes can be got out in winter 

 with but little outlay in money. By this 

 course, the cost of a vineyard of six acres 

 would not be half as much as mine. 



Some prefer planting in rows, four by 

 five ; others, four and a half by four and a 

 half; and, on level land, three and a half 

 by six or even seven feet. 



I have merely given, in the foregoing 

 remarks, the course pursued by myself and 

 some of my neighbors, without pretending 

 that it is preferable to others. R. B. 



CRITIQUE ON THE JANUARY HORTICULTURIST. 

 BY JEFFREYS, WESTERN NEW- YORK. 



Your Leader — Trees. — Multum in parvo. 

 The details of a volume are thus condensed 

 into understandable shape, for anybody's 

 e very-year practice. 



More than twenty years ago, Sir Henry 

 Stuart published his admirable " Planter's 

 Guide," containing a most interesting essay 

 on fruit trees and park planting, with a de- 

 scription of his own labors in giving imme- 



diate effect in wood and shade, over a large 

 and previously naked park around his resi- 

 dence at Allanton. The history of his ef- 

 forts produced great sensation for some 

 years in England and Scotland ; and one 

 of the most enthusiastic and charming es- 

 says ever written by Professor Wilson, was 

 published in Blackwood for 182S, in a re- 

 view of Sir Henry's book. I commend it 



