GRAPE CULTURE AXD WIXE MAKIXG. 07o 



increase for years to come. The grape fever is on the country, 

 and nurserymen, to supply the demand, are using everything hi 

 the shape of grape wood to make phints from. They are no 

 doubt doing the best they can under the circumstances, but 

 even by their forcing they cannot begin to supply the demand, 

 and we cannot blame them if they get theii own prices. They 

 can make better plants, and cheaper than you can, but they icill 

 not do it as long as they can get full prices for everything that 

 has a root to it. You can manage to raise all the plants you 

 need and make the cuttings pay the expense. 



The trellis will be the next item of expense, but by the plan 

 we have recommended you get a much better trellis for your 

 money, than by the old plan of horizontal wires, which neces- 

 sitated the use of number ten wire. 



Six hundred posts to the acre will be the largest number 3'ou 

 can possibly need, even for the moderate growing varieties, and 

 ought to be had for sixty dollars. If the ends are tarred or 

 charred before they are set, they will last a long time. Cedar 

 posts are considered the best when they are to be obtained. 

 Tins will necessitate twelve hundred cross bars an inch thick 

 by two and a half or three inches wide, and eiglit feet long. In 

 the Eastern States, where everv farmer owns timber land, these 

 can be got out with but little actual outlay. An acre trained 

 and trellised as we have recommended will require three 

 hundred pounds of wire, which at twenty cents per pound (the 

 highest price we have ever paid) will cost sixty dollars. Use 

 galvanized wire, as it lasts much longer than the common 

 annealed wire. 



Pruning is not complicated nor dif&cult, but as simple as the 

 alphabet, and a boy may do the fall pruning of one hundred 

 full grown vines in a day. Take, for example, a vine Avith two 

 arras of five feet each, and five spurs on each arm, and two 



