306 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



a large quantity of the most delicious and healthful fruit. 

 It succeeds best in a very warm location and in. rather poor 

 soil, but if planted where it is close and moist, with but 

 little air and sunlight, it is sure to be attacked by mildews, 

 rots, and anthracnose. The conditions of success in grow- 

 ing the grape are a moderately vigorous growth of vine well 

 spread out to the full sunlight and air; forcing the growth 

 into a few canes those bearing the fruit the present season 

 and those that are to bear the fruit the next season all 

 other parts of the vine being prevented from growing by 

 pinching as soon as they have made one new leaf after the 

 last pinching; and thinning the fruit so that the vines shall 

 not be exhausted by overbearing. The fruit is borne on the 

 wood of the present season's growth, and the more vigorous 

 this growth the larger will be the size of the bunches and 

 the quantity of fruit. 



The best support for the vines to run on is made of Xo. 

 14 or 16 galvanized iron wire, as the tendrils of the vines 

 will cling to this, it is less expensive, and the vines require 

 less tying to keep them in place than if trained to a wooden 

 trellis. If trained against the building, the vine should be 

 kept six to ten inches from the wall, that the air may 

 better circulate among the leaves and fruit thus preventing 

 disease and the decay of the woodwork. 



In very wet seasons mildew will attack the leaves, and 

 rot and anthracnose the berries, and spraying becomes a 

 necessity to insure a crop under these unfavorable condi- 

 tions. The Bordeaux mixture should be used up to the 

 time the fruit is one half grown, after which the copper 

 solution must be used, making two applications of the 

 former and three or four of the latter, according to the 

 weather. 



