48 Acknoioledgments. [July, 



to 842 hales. An old Carolina planter, having gathered his crop 

 of five acres, was so surprised and alarmed at the immense amount 

 they yielded, which was fifteen bales, that he exclaimed " well, 

 well, I have done with cotton; here is enough to make stockings 

 for all the people in America! The cotton crop of the United 

 States for 1844 was 2,300,000 hales:' 



A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine 



ON Open Walls &c.: By Clement Hoare; with an appendix, 



containing Remarks on the Culture of the Grape Vine in the 



United States. 



The author of this tneatise is distinguished for the success which 

 has attended his mode of cultivation of this plant in England; a 

 mode which, for foreign grapes, might without doubt be adopted 

 for grapes from a warmer climate in the country. This part of 

 the treatise, that relating to the peculiar mode as successfully 

 carried into practice by (he author, was fully described in one of 

 the earliest numbers of this journal, and need not, therefore, de- 

 tain the reader in this place. 



We propose now to notice briefly some of the directions in the 

 appendix for the cultivation of our native grapes, which has been 

 furnished by Dr. Underbill, who is the most successful cultivator 

 in this country. 



Dr. Underbill cultivates the Catawba and Isabella grapes, 

 which it is remarked have much improved, and are still farther 

 susceptible of improvement; and the probability is, that hereafter 

 we shall have no occasion to regret that vines "from Europe have 

 so generally failed us. 



One of the difficulties which Dr. Underbill had to contend 

 with was the rose bug, which infested the cluster of flowers, and 

 which in the end nearly destroyed them. This difficulty had to 

 be obviated by shaking them into a cup of water early in the 

 morning; these on being disturbed in this way instantly fall from 

 the leaf or flower, and when falling may be received into the cup 

 of water or turpentine. 



The following extract will suffice for the present for accounting 

 for the previous faihn-e in the cultivation of this fruit, and also 

 for a desciiption of the plan which had better be adopted to in- 

 sure complete success hereafter. 



"Another cause of failure has been a want of practical experi- 

 ence in the best mode of preparing the ground, planting the vines, 

 pruning, &c., so as to insure a vigorous growth of bearing wood, 

 and keep this from extending too far from the roots of the vines, 

 when planted with the desire of forming a vineyard. The Euro- 

 pean method of pruning and cultivating the grape is not altoge- 

 ther correct. The natural vigor of our native vines is much 



