PREPARING FOR WINTER QUARTERS. 2 IQ 



them for sale, and make our purchase of him 

 whose vines show a tendency to great vigor and 

 productiveness. For the same variety will look 

 very differently, and really have marked diversi- 

 ties in different localities, and under varied 

 treatment ; and some growers' plants, from 

 something unfavorable in soil or culture, become 

 feeble in their constitution, and no amount of 

 care can make them do so well as those from a 

 thrifty stock. One great point of success is 

 the continued selection of the strong and pro- 

 lific. If the Clark and Philadelphia varieties are 

 employed, the same high degree of fertility is 

 not required, as they are naturally much more 

 vigorous in their growth. But the same clean, 

 careful culture should be practised with all 

 kinds Hard-baked soil, grass and weeds, will 

 discourage the hardiest native varieties, and the 

 cultivator will deserve nothing from his bushes 

 but thorns. 



