232 GRAPE CULTURE AND 



ruptions by stormy weather. This season's plant amounted 

 to 965 acres, as follows : 



Verdal, 20 acres ; Malaga, Blues White, 5 acres ; Black 

 Ferrara, 10 acres; which, being all shipping varieties, were 

 planted in extension of the shipping vineyard ; and the fol- 

 lowing exclusively Wine varieties, viz": Lenoir, 10 acres; 

 Zinfandel, 150 acres; Feher Zagos, 15 acres; Meunier, 15 

 acres ; Crabb's Black Burgundy, 50 acres ; Chalosse, 10 acres; 

 Columbar, 50 acres ; Grenache, 60 acres ; Chauche Noir, 65 

 acres; Sauvignon Verte, 25 acres; Mataro, 75 acres; Mo- 

 selle Riesling, 20 acres ; Orleans Riesling, $ acres ; Franken 

 Riesling, 20 acres ; Wests Prolific, 5 acres ; Seedless Sul- 

 tana, 10 acres; Piquepoule Gris, 3 acres; Frontignan, 12 

 acres ; Trousseau, 50 acres ; Berger, 85 acres ; Malvoisie, 25 

 acres ; Carignane, 70 acres ; Caberenet Malbec, 20 acres ; 

 Charbonneau, 30 acres ; Folle Blanche, 50 acres. 



This plant was made entirely of cuttings, and sufficient 

 more cuttings, of the same varieties, were placed in nursery 

 for rooting, to similarity plant another 1000 acres in the suc- 

 ceeding year, which the Company directed the manager to 

 prepare for, the intention being to carry the vineyard up to 

 3000 acres. 



Small experimental plantations were also made, for test 

 purposes, of some of the American resistant varieties, Herbe- 

 mont, Rupestris, Cynthiana and Norton's Virginia ; and ex- 

 tensive propagating of Lenoir was undertaken for future 

 planting. 



The Company having on a tract of its lands, adjoining its 

 Orchards, three miles from the vineyard, and near the town of 

 Folsom, a plantation of thrifty Mission grape vines, upwards 

 of ten years old, it was decided to graft these into the choicest 

 wine varieties which could be imported. Accordingly, at very 

 considerable expense, there were imported from France, Spain, 

 Italy, and Portugal, the cuttings of the following varieties, and 



