118 AMERICAN GEAPE GROWING 



and small amounts of wine are shipped annually. The 

 long growing season in this State enables the vines to 

 make fully double the amount of wood which they can 

 make in the Northern States, or even in Missouri, and 

 the winters are so mild that the wood is never injured 

 by cold. The black rot, the downy mildew and the 

 powdery mildew are almost unknown, though the "ripe 

 grape rot" (Melanconium fuligineum) is often injurious 

 to the late-ripening shipping varieties, though it does not 

 attack the early-ripening market sorts, nor those of the 

 rupestris and lincecumii types recently introduced by 

 Munson. In the central part of the State, Champion 

 and other early sorts are ready for market from July 5 

 to 10, while from the Coast region they may be shipped 

 from a week to ten days earlier. 



Among the more popular varieties for market are 

 Champion, Delaware, Herbemont, Ives, Moore's Early, 

 Niagara and Perkins. For table use Brilliant, Delaware, 

 Gold Coin, Green Mountain, Hermann Jaeger, Moyer, 

 Mrs. Nellie Munson and Rommell are among the more 

 popular sorts. Wine making is a rapidly growing indus- 

 try along the Gulf coast, where the Scuppernong varie- 

 ties grow to perfection. At Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, and 

 other points, several French colonies have been located 

 and are planting the Scupper nong quite largely, and are 

 said to be making wine of excellent quality. 



The horizontal trellis has given us better satisfaction 

 than has any other which we have ever seen, and is the 

 one which we recommend for general use. In making 

 it, the posts are set as for the vertical trellis, the tops 

 are sawed off square at five feet from the ground, and a 

 crosspiece of 2x4, two feet long, is laid on the top of 

 each, and nailed at right angles to the direction of the 

 row. Three No. 12 wires are stapled to these cross- 

 pieces, one directly over the post, and the others one 

 inch from the ends of the crosspieces. The cost of ma- 



