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plenty of wood. The mere sight is 

 more than volumes of argument. I 

 think seven feet apart for trellises a 

 good distance for all varieties, without 

 distinction. I have mj'self adopted 

 the plan of trellises six feet apart, 

 with a space of ten feet every fourth 

 row to admit the passage of carts 

 when necessary. This is a very 

 •pretty plan, but with the rank grow- 

 ing vines scarcely gives room enough 

 I think for the roots. Seven or eight 

 feet would be better. Besides, as the 

 trellises need not be built until the third 

 year, the intervening ground might 

 be made to produce crops of potatoes, 

 cabbages, or other crops which would 

 not entangle or choke the young vines. 

 The distance of the vines in the 

 row should depend on the varieties. 

 For Herbemont, Goethe, Norton's 

 Virginia, and Cynthiana, I would 

 allow fifteen feet between vine and 

 vine along the trellis. For Concord, 

 Martha, and other tolerably strong 

 growers, I would allow ten feet. For 

 Catawba about eight and for Dela- 

 ware about six feet. Other varieties 

 should be allowed distance in propor- 

 tion to vigor of growth. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



Jno. E. Eakin. 



J. W. Martix, Esq., Little Rock, Ark. 



[We copy the above from the Little 

 Eock (Ark.) Daily Gazette, as it may 

 be very interesting to our many south- 

 ern readers, and as friend Eakin's ad- 

 vice is good in the main. Of course 

 we cannot agi'ee with him in every 

 thing. His strong predilections for 

 the Catawba will only last as long aa 

 he has not fully tried other better va- 

 rieties, and although he seems to think 

 that there are none which are better,^ 

 we could name a dozen, easily, which 

 he himself will have to concede are 

 better, and wc know them to be more 

 reliable. But we can safely leave his 

 cure to time and experience in this 

 matter. 



We can also not see why the ISTor- 

 ton and Cynthiana should be planted 

 farther apart than Concord. We 

 would think the reverse the better 

 course, as the Concord is the stronger 

 grower by far. 



We must also differ with him in re- 

 gard to the Delaware, Good as that 

 grape is, it is far from being univer- 

 sally successful, and has given rise to 

 more disappointments than any other 

 grape, the lona perhaps excepted. 

 We would advise to try it very spar- 

 ingly at first. Ed.] 



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