TREATISE 



CULTIVATION OF THE VINE. 



ARTICLE I. 



Preparation of the soil for the Vineyard. 



THE cultivator of an old vineyard, whose in- 

 tention it is to eradicate his vines, with the de- 

 sign of introducing on the same site a new plan- 

 tation, should, the preceding year, prune; with 

 that view, leaving the branches double the ordi- 

 nary length, that he may obtain thereby a larger 

 crop, than it would be safe to allow the vines to 

 produce under ordinary circumstances. He 

 must, this season, manure heavily his intended 

 vine grounds. Previously to taking up the old 

 plants, he must open a trench of two or three feet 

 in depth, according to the nature of the soil in 

 which he intends to plant, and in the operation 

 care must be taken to place the broken or pulve- 

 rized surface, that in the digging has become 



