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FARMERS' REGrSTER. 



[No. 6 



693, ('VVin(l.?or''s sister Mary, was sold lor 300 guineas^ gr 2; d Lady, by Young Dimple, 971, gr gr 

 o- d! Cherry, by Favorite, gr gr gr 2; d. Old Cherry, by Goidfinder, 1075. 



" ** Bull Melbourne, fbou^ht by Richard Sampson, esq. of Goochland, Va.) rerl-roan, calved m Sep- 

 tember, 1835;20tby MonitoT, 2331, d. Vioiet, by Memnon,2296. gd. Red Rose, by Snowdrop, 2653. gr 

 a d. by Barmpton, 1677, gr gr g d. by Waverly, 2319. Melbourne obtained a premium at Durham, 

 m 1837, and his dam receTve^l oiie at'ihe same place in 1836. 



tt Bull Primo, fBoux-ht by Richard Sampson, ; roan, calved January 26th, 1S3S, got by Colossus, 

 1847, d. Spinster, by Meteor 2nd, 2305, g d. Elvira, by Rarouet, 774, gr g d Emerald, by Meteor, 

 432, (270 -Tuineas,) gr 'jv a d. Lavinia, by Comet 155, (1009 iruineas.)— (The late Colonel Mellish 

 relh'sed250 trnineas Ib^Lavinia, when a few months old. She got three premiums.)— grgr gr g d. 

 Lily by Mr. Colling's Son of Favorile, 252, gr gr ar frr g d. by Mr. Colling's Son of Favorite, 2-52, gr 

 pr gr o;r gr g d by^'a Bull of Mr. Chapman's " of Dinsdale, gr gr gr gr gr gr g d. by Mr. Grimston'a 

 Rulf SS"' 



tt'BulT'Miser fboufht by Mr. Cunningham, ) white, calved Mav 25th, 1836: cot by Goidfinder, 



breeder of Goidfinder. Paulina, the dam of Miser, gave sixteen quarts of Milk twice a day, 



GRAPE CULTURE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Tn the Editor of the Farmers' Register, 



Colmnbia 



!, Smith Carolina, ") 

 Sept. 9th, 1S37. 5 



Dear Sir — Long indisposilion, and much occu- 

 pation in a small way, have prevenicd my writ- 

 ing to you sooner; and another cause fur delay is, 

 that I wished to have it in my power to give you 

 the result of my vintage, which [ have this day 

 terminated, except a small quantity of the grapes 

 called "Bland's," which I shall probably gather 

 next week, and which will add 40 or 50 gallons of 

 wiue to the amount mentioned below. 



The culture of the vine is really a strange thing. 

 It produces an excitemeat somewhat analogous to 

 gaming, though I hope it is more innocent and 

 useful. The "rot attacked the grapes, as usual, 

 about the middle of June and beginning of July, 

 so as to threaten disastrous consequences to the 

 crop. The quantity of grapes was very great; 

 but I do not think much more so than they are 

 commonly. This rot, however, stopped without 

 having inflicted on the vines that devastation To 

 which they are often liable. My vines, particu- 

 larly those in my siarden, attracted much notice 

 and admiration. You will not be surprised at this, 

 when I inform you that I obtained from those 

 vines, (in my garden one-sixth of an acre,) 4G0 

 o-allons of wine. I have every reason to believe 

 that it will be of an excellent qualily. When 

 such a great quantity of grapes have attained lull 

 maturity, and hang from a flat-top arbor like mine, 

 it is dilticult to conceive the beauty and richness of 

 the sight. I almost tl'ar to mention the almost in- 

 credible product of two of the vines, which I 

 cannot, liowever, cive with great accuracy, lor I 

 did not think of measuring it with the gallon mea- 

 sure till it was too late, when I noticed it in the 

 casks, before the grapes of other vines had been 

 gathered. It was, certainly, upwards of 130 gal- 

 lons. The largest of those two vines is that men- 

 tioned in the fourth vol. of the Farmers' Register, 

 No. 2, pasre 89, near the bottom of the page. It is 

 27 or 28 years old. The other, which covers part 

 of the same arbor, is much smaller, and is only IS 

 years old. Take the produce of these two vines, 

 and that of the others of the garden, and I doubt 

 much whctllbr it has ever been excelled in this or 



in other countries. These vines are principally 

 those called Ilerbemonl's Madeira, and a lew of 

 the Lenoir, in all 45 vines. 



The product of my poor sand-hill vineyard, is 

 nothing to be compared to the above; but yet, it is 

 grca'.er than it has ever been — 740 gallons was 

 the result there. Not having made any thing of a 

 crop at the larm lor several years, the vines had 

 been much neglected, most of them indeed, totally 

 so. I have no doubt, that with a little care and 

 culture, they would have produced ar least three 

 or four times the quantity. This neglect of the 

 vines was lor the purpose of raising more corn, 

 which the poverty of the soil would not, did not, 

 or rather could not yield. 



I must, in Hiirness, stale that although the vines 

 in the two arbors in my garden, were planted wi*hin 

 aspaceconfainingonly one-sixth of an acre, taken 

 together, yet the vines extend over head on one 

 side of the larger one about 10 or 12 feet, and 

 those of the other extend the same width on both 

 sides. The part thus covered, however, is in the 

 one case taken up by a walk, and, in the other, the 

 ground is cultivated as if it were not thus covered, 

 so that the ground is not in reality taken by the 

 vines. I am also trying the culture of the currant 

 and the gooseberiy, (in which I never have suc- 

 ceeded before,) under the vines of the larger ar- 

 bor. The shade seems to produce the effect I ex- 

 pected from it, and I have had this summer a lit- 

 tle of tjoth these nice fruits. I am also trying 

 dwarf pear trees under the same vines, and they 

 have stood the drought and great heat of this sum- 

 mer, although they were jilanted very late. I 

 think it is almost certain the)' would have died, but 

 for the protection of the vines. Nous verrons. 



Although my crop of grajies was great, there 

 was much rot among them, which had to be picked 

 out, which operation was lonir and tedious. This 

 rot, in the Madeira, was that of the early part 

 of the summer, and the grapes ati'ected by it were 

 dried up. If these had been left, they vvould not 

 only have imbibed a (jreat deal ot the juice of the 

 others, but would most probably have imparted to 

 the wine a bad taste. My other grapes, the Lenoir, 

 had very little or none of this first rot; but as they 

 were attaining their full maturity, they were at- 

 tacked by a larce insect called "June-bug," and 

 "fig-eater." These soon destroy a bunch of 

 grapes, not only by eating them, but also by tear- 



