GEAPE C¥LTURE AND WINE MAKING. 679 



Our opinion is, that if pure grape wine could be made as plenty 

 as whiskey, men would drink it instead, and thus the terrible 

 evil of intemperance be very much lessened. We say to every 

 one who has a square rod of ground, plant a vine. 



A second system of training we will call the "Lakeview" 

 system, as it is practised at " Lakeview," Ohio. The post is set 

 before the vine is planted, and for the first two years the vine 

 is trained to the post. Four canes are grown each year, after 

 the first, only two being allowed to bear. The third year, slats 

 are nailed from the top of each post to near the bottom of the 

 next, say one foot from the ground, and the two canes not 

 allowed to bear are trained on these, wliile the bearing canes 

 are trained to the post. The cutting back is the same as in the 

 other system ; the two canes that have borne being cut out, and 

 the two that are to be the bearing canes next year cut back to 

 three or four buds. The advantages of this system are that 

 vines are saved, and also the stakes on which in the other sys- 

 tem the vines are trained the first two years. But we consider 

 that it has too many disadvantages to come into common use, 

 except as an expedient where capital is scarce. Still another, 

 and the most slovenly and wasteful sj'-stem that can well be 

 contrived, is that of simply training each vine to a cedar stake. 

 It involves the purchase or growing of three times as many 

 vines, without a corresponding increase of fruit. The system 

 of pruning is the same ; two canes bearing each year. There 

 may be an endless number of modifications of the first system, 

 of some of which we shall speak in Garden Culture. 



The cultivation of the grape in the vineyard consists in keep 

 ing the ground mellow and the weeds down. A cultivator 

 shduld be run through the rows as often as once a fortnight, 

 and the hoe used freely in stirring the earth and killing the 

 weeds, where the cultivator will not reach. The soil should 



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