214 APPENDIX. 



" Remarks of the editor. We find the following notices 

 of the same fact in Henderson's c History of Wines of the 

 old and new time f 



" ' The best manure for vines is the branches pruned from 

 the vines themselves, cut into small pieces, and immediately 

 mixed with the soil.'' 



" These branches were used as manure long since in the 

 Bergstrasse. M. Frauenfelder says : * 



" * I remember that twenty years ago, a man called Peter 

 Mliller had a vineyard here which he manured with the 

 branches pruned from the vines, and- continued this practice 

 for thirty years. His way of applying them was to hoe them 

 into the soil after having cut them into small pieces. 



46 ' His vineyard was always in a thriving condition; so 

 much so indeed, that the peasants here speak of it to this 

 day wondering that old Miiller had so good a vineyard, and 

 yet used no manure/ 



" Lastly, Wilhelm Ruf of Schriesheim writes : 



" < For the last ten years I have been unable to place dung 

 on my vineyard, because I am poor and can buy none. But 

 I was very unwilling to allow my vines to decay, as they are 

 my only source of support in my old age ; and I often walked 

 very anxiously amongst them, without knowing what I 

 should do. At last my necessities became greater, which 

 made me more attentive, so that I remarked that the grass 

 was longer on some spots where the branches of the vine 

 fell than on those on which there were none. So I thought 

 upon the matter, and then said to myself: If these branches 

 can make the grass large, strong, and green, they must also 

 be able to make my plants grow better, and become strong 

 and green. I dug therefore my vineyard as deep as if I would 

 put dung into it, and cut the branches into pieces, placing 



* Badisches landwirthschaftliches Wochenblatt, v.. 1834. S. 52 and 79. 



