10 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



of being understood by readers of different classes, who 

 may wish to employ this system in the various kinds of 

 culture. 



The method of '' stopping/^ which we have pre- 

 scribed, is peculiarly our own, being the result of our 

 personal experience and practice in pot vine culture ; 

 and the detached and divided border for the vinery, is 

 also quite original with us. We believe that we have 

 been the first to publish any suggestion of such a bor- 

 der, and the first to construct a house on this plan. 



We also advocate, more strictly and emphatically than 

 any other writer that we know of, shallow and mode- 

 rately rich borders, very shallow planting, surface ma- 

 nuring and heavy mulching, as necessary to success in 

 grape culture. 



The alternate renewal plan, which we recommend, 

 has never before, we believe, been presented to the pub- 

 lic, or practised in the vineyard, as a distinct and defi- 

 nite system, and may therefore be claimed as original. 



Our method of top-dressing and manuring, and the 

 combination of fertilizers employed, are, we believe, in 

 many respects new ; and we feel assured that they are 

 based upon scientific principles, which will bear tho 

 test of investigation and practical trial. 



This work was originally intended to be simply a 

 hand-book of instruction in the management of the 

 grape vine in pots, and the system we advocate has 

 chiefly grown out of our experience in that kind of cul- 

 ture; we shall therefore first treat of the propagation 



