128 APPENDIX- 



POSTSCKIPT. 



September 8, 1865. 



Such a season as the present has never been expe- 

 rienced since the invention of ground vineries. A 

 fine vine here of the Trentham Black grape occupies 

 five seven-feet lengths, and is, of course, thirty-five 

 feet long; this is bearing fifty Jiice sized bunches of 

 grapes, now fully ripe. Another vine, the Black 

 Hamburgh, is also bearing a fine crop of sixty-three 

 medium-si^d bunches, the grapes full-sized, finely 

 colored, and fast approaching to ripeness. There 

 seems to be a most agreeable and animating prospect 

 of these neat-looking and most useful structures occu- 

 pying thousands of small gardens, and giving the 

 luxury of fine ripe grapes to many who are capable 

 of appreciating and enjoying them. 



The first idea of one vine only occupying two 

 seven-feet lengths is put to rest, for in a good soil the 

 vines are so vigorous that, although they may be 

 shortened so as to be confined to fourteen feet, there 

 is no reason why one vine should not extend to one 

 hundred feet, adding annually one or two lengths as 

 required. I am inclined to hope that I shall live to 

 see my favorite Trentham Black reach that length. 



September 21, 1865. 



I find to-day that the grapes on bunches hanging 

 from the upright spurs of my Black Hamburgh vine, 

 just under the apex of the roof of one of my ground 

 vineries, and a trifle over one foot from the ground 



