yiNE BOEDEES. 



here are as good vines as ever revelled in tlie carcass of a dead horse. I have bunches 

 of grapes from 2 lbs. to 4 lbs. weight. The largest of the vines are 4^ in. around a 

 foot from the ground, and berries of the Cannon Hall Muscat 3f in. around and not 

 yet ripe. Mr. Rives, of Louisville, saw these grapes this spring and pronounced them 

 to be the finest vines he ever saw, and that I had more grapes on six of these vines 

 than he had in a house of eighty feet that had been planted four years. This was after 

 they had been thinned. I give this statement as a proof that good grapes and heavy 

 crops can be grown without dead horses. 



[We thank ]\Ir, Meston for the very instructive account he has given us of his 

 successful grape culture. There is not, however, a wide difference of opinion between 

 him and Mr. Cleveland. Both admit the necessity of animal matter (dead carcasses) 

 being in a decomposed state before the roots of the vines reach it or can derive benefit 

 from it. That roots of vines or any other living plant will soon perish in contact with 

 fresh animal substances, no one can doubt.] 



