TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Foreword 6 



Purpose 6 



Scope 6 



Incentives . 6 



Planting Trial of Vineyards 7 



Location 7 



Soil 7 



Supplementary Observations 7 



Acknowledgments 8 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTION GRAPES OF AMERICA 



Grapes Among Ancients 9 



Original Varieties Grown 9 



Distribution of Wild Grapes 9 



Grapes Indigenous to Tennessee 9 



Early Attempts to Grow Grapes 10 



Failures Explained 10 



Success at Last 10 



Vineyards in Tennessee 11 



Other Southern Vineyards 12 



CHAPTER II 

 VARIETY TRIALS 



Trial Vineyard 13 



Soil Selected ' 13 



Preparation of Soil 13 



Planting and Care 13 



Weather Handicaps 1*3 



Resetting 14 



g; Further Plantings 14 



& List of Varieties . 14 



<* Care of Vineyard 17 



Results 18 



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