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THE GRAPE. 



bred cultivator of the grape } and I believe the readers of 

 this book will not regret it 



FIG. 3. 



He says, " I have been looking over my former year's 

 work, have been reading back or rather over again the 

 views of others, and, after studying all, I took my spade 

 and digging fork and went to an Isabella vine, planted 

 some ten years or more since, and which has never shown 

 any disease, but yearly ripened its fruit regularly and 

 evenly. It was in clay soil. I dug carefully all around it 

 a distance of four feet each way from the vine, or eight 

 feet diameter, took out a trench with spade, then with my 

 fork I commenced to shake out roots, but there was no 

 direct tap-root of any size, and altogether the larger por- 

 tion of the roots were within ten inches of the surface. 

 Small roots, as large as a goose quill, it is true, were 

 apparently down below. Some of them pulled up in lift- 

 ing the vine, others broke off, but there was not a large or 

 main root so situated. 



It may not be that this is any guide showing the genera) 



