THE GRAPE. 



"Vve nave shown in a former article, a chapter how to 

 form the grape cutting for out of door growing. We now 

 propose to show how to plant and prune the grape, which 

 next to, if not superior to the pear, is bound to be part 

 and parcel of every small homestead, and from it, on to 

 its hundreds of acres for supply of its luscious and health- 

 ful food to the millions that have no garden grounds. 



Once upon a time, the writer had much to do with var- 

 ieties of grapes, the growing from cuttings, layers, etc., 

 and came to the conclusion that a good, strong, healthy, 

 well rooted plant, grown with space of one foot apart, 

 was better and more likely to be successful than the plant 

 grown from a single eye and only three inches apart in a 

 frame. My estimate is now appreciated by one who 

 watched my work, and who says now that every year- 

 ling grape grown from a cutting should have eighteen 

 inches of space to make it really valuable. 



But let me show the reader of this book my illustra- 

 tions of how I made cuttings, and how the roots and 

 growth showed. They all had the same care and soil. 

 As before said, in an item of how to form a grape cut- 

 ting for out-door culture, we present the following illus- 

 trations. Figure A shows a cutting made of two buds, all 



