Treatment of the American Grape - Vine, 



45 



it a good iuvGBtment to make wine of 

 this variet}' of grape when we can do 

 so much better. 



No. 25. North Carolina Seedling of 

 1868, from same, compared with good 

 Catawba grades at 80; is xerj nice 

 white wine. 



No. 26. Clinton of 1868, from same; 

 grade 77 ; will yet be bettor. 



No. 27. Delaware of 1868, from 

 same ; grades 85 ; although so good, 

 is not, we think, quite equal to what 

 No. 15 will be. 



No. 28. Norton's of 1868, from 

 same ; grade 80 ; was probably injur- 

 ed by a musty bottle. 



No. 29. Catawba of 1868, from 

 same; lacks in flavor; grade 77. 



No. 30. Catawba of 1868, from J. 

 J. Kelley ; gi'ade 82. 



No. 31. Concord of 1869, from 

 same ; grade 81. 



No. 32. Concord of 1869, from J. J. 

 Squires; grade 78. 



In closing this report we ask 

 special attention of the wine-growers 

 to the manufacture of White Concord, 

 which is rapidly gi'owiug in favor, 

 and ma}' 3'et be the white wine of the 

 country. 



John M. Pearson, 

 S. Miller, 

 L. D. Morse, 

 E. S. Hull, 



Committee. 



From Tiltoii's Jourual of Horticulture and Floral Magazine. 



TEEATMENT OF THE AMEEICAN GRAPE-VINE. 



BY EDWA.RD E. UNDERHILL, BROCTQN, N.Y. 



{Concluded, 



In planting a vineyard, Mr. Bj'ing- 

 ton places his vines from eight to 

 twelve feet apart in the rows, having 

 regard to the richness of the soil and 

 the character of the vine as a rank or 

 moderate grower. His trellis is six 

 and a half or seven feet in height, with 

 five wires. When the vines have fully 

 covered the trellis, and are evidently 

 impatient of restraint, ho takes out 

 alternate vines, leaving the others 

 from sixteen to twenty-four feet dis- 

 tant from each other in the rows. 



During the fall or winter, he does 

 his first pruning. It is quickly ac- 

 complished^ and merely consists in 

 cutting away some of the tangled mass 

 of wood, but leaving three times as 

 much as he thinks he will require. 

 Nothing more is done with the vines 

 until- the early days of summer. In 



the mean time, the buds burst, the 

 shoots push out, the leaves develop, 

 and the fruit-clusters appear : and, as 

 not a few but veiy many buds were 

 left to receive the life-giving currents 

 proceeding from a large and strong 

 root, vegetation proceeds in its nor- 

 mal course ; and there is strength and 

 vigor, and not weakness and decay, in 

 the progress it has made. It is during 

 the critical period of the starting of 

 vegetation that Nature should encoun- 

 ter nothing to'disturb the performance 

 of her functions ; and, this period hav- 

 ing passed, when the clusters have ap- 

 peared the time comes when the real 

 work of pruning may be done. Then^ 

 surveying the trellis, Mr. Byington 

 sees fruit-clusters in great excess : but 

 this is a difficulty easily cured ; where- 

 as, in case of a deficiency, he would 



