PLANTING TRIAL OF VINEYARDS 



After some preliminary attempts to establish a vineyard, 

 work was begun in earnest by selecting a fairly well drained plot 

 of land lying on the top of a ridge on the Nashville Agricultural 

 Normal Institute's farm at Madison, Tennessee. The first 

 grapes planted were Moore's Early, Niagara, Lutie, and Concord; 

 and two years later Worden was added. The following year a 

 further planting was made of Catawba, Caco, Norton, Winchel, 

 and Herbert. In the fall of nineteen hundred seventeen another 

 plot of land adjacent to these plantings was* prepared, plants 

 secured, and about one hundred sixty-eight additional varieties 

 were set. The unit decided on for this plantation was five vines 

 of a variety, though in several instances, either more or less 

 than this number were planted. These variations appear in 

 Chapter II. In nineteen hundred eighteen a number of addi- 

 tional varieties were planted, some of them being cross-bred 

 seedlings produced on' the place. A complete list of the varieties 

 planted appears elsewhere. 



In addition to the work done in this trial vineyard, personal 

 observations have been made in various parts of every state in 

 the old South except Louisiana, as well as in many of the 

 border and northern states. Literally hundreds of miles were 

 tramped through Tennessee, North Carolina, and North 

 Georgia studying wild grapes. 



