1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



97 



CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



In a recent number of the Farmer, we had an 

 illustrated article upon the Grape, and then spoke 

 of it £is an ornament in the garden or about the 

 dwelling, of its healthfulness as an article of food, 

 and of its usefulness in sickness. That article has 

 been very favorably received, and a desire express- 

 ed by many to see another giving more full and 

 explicit directions for priming and training, from 

 the time the root or cutting is set until the vine 

 has covered all the space which it is desirable to 

 have it occupy. 



In Wilson's Economy of the Kitchen Garden, we 

 find succinct and clear directions for the manage- 

 ment of the vine, which we give below, with such 

 illustrations as cannot fail to make the whole mat- 

 ter clear to those entirely inexjaerienced. 



No. 1. . Ko. 2 No. 3. 



JJo. 1. — Plant when set out. 



No. 2. — Plant one year after setting out. 



No. 3. — Plant two years after setting out. 



No. 1 on the plate is a representation of the 

 plant when set out, of one year's growth from the 

 cutting, and is to be cut otf to one good bud, as shown 

 by the cross lines. The lower bud is seldom count- 

 ed, and only the upper bud is to be allowed to pro- 

 duce one shoot ; the young buds on this shoot will 

 many of them shoot out in the course of the sum- 

 mer, which should be ])inched oft". 



No. 2 represents the plant of one shoot, one 

 year after being planted, and is to be cut down 

 to two good buds, about fifteen or eighteen inch- 

 es high from the ground. The shoots from these 

 two buds are to be trained to a trellis, horizon- 

 tally, to a distance of four feet, and then their 

 ends ])inched oft", as we intend the plant to fill a 

 space in width of eight feet. 



No. 3 represents the plant two years after setting 

 out, with the last year's horizontal shoots as they 

 must be cut in to three good buds. The two buds 

 next to the stem, are to be allowed to shoot and 

 grow upward as high as they please, to be tied up to 

 the trellis, and the end buds to be trained horizon- 

 tally, to the limits of three or four feet distance, 

 and again pinched off. 



No. 4. — Vine three years after setting out. 



No. 4 represents the plant three years from set- 

 ting out, with its two last year's upright shoots, as 



they must be cut down to four good buds, which 

 are this year to bear fruit, and the horizontal cut 

 in to three good buds ; their shoots are all to be 

 trained upright, which will comjjlete the head of 

 your \ine, with eight branches at about one foot 

 apart. 



No. 5. — Vine four years after setting out 



No. 5 represents the vine four years after setting 

 out, with the two centre branches that bore fruit 

 last year, as they must be cut down near to their 

 origin. The next two cut down to four buds for 

 bearing fruit. The next two to one good bud, for 

 producing one good wood shoot. The next and 

 last two, to three buds for bearing fruit. Its reg- 

 ular culture, afterwards, is to cut four of the 

 branches low down, and to leave four longer to 

 bear fruit alternately, always allowing the branches 

 that bear fruit the one year, to be cut down, for re- 

 covering a good shoot again for bearing the next. 



The other mode of training, is called horizontal 

 training, but may be extended to any height or dis- 

 tance, so as you retain the leading shoot, or it may 

 be confined to a very low space by cutting it off". 



No. 6 represents the plant when set out, the 

 same age as the other ; to be cut also to one good 

 bud, as at e. This bud to be allowed to produce 

 one good shoot. 



No. 6. 



No. 7. 



No. 8. 



No. 6. — Vine when set out. 



No. 7. — Vine one year after setting out. 



No. 8. — Vine two years after setting out. 



No. 7 represents the ])lant one year after setting 

 ont, to be cut down to three good buds as at e. 

 The shoot from the upper one of which is to be 

 trained upright, and the two lower ones to be train- 

 ed horizontally. 



No. 8 represents the plant two years from set- 

 ting out, the leading shoot of which is to be cut 

 down to nine buds, as at e. The upper bud to be 

 allowed to shoot upright, and all the others hori- 

 zontallv ; four feet from each side. The two last 



