BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 9 



other native vines. We have tried them in pots, on 

 arbors and trellises, and in the vineyard, on our system, 

 and have found the fears of grape-growers, as to the in- 

 jurious effects of dwarfing, entirely without foundation. 



Upon our system, in fact, the free flow of sap from 

 the roots is not checked or restrained ; it finds full and 

 free outlet in the formation of wood, foliage and fruit, 

 — as full and free as if permitted to run to the terminal 

 points of a vine fifty feet long. "We give the roots work 

 enough to do, and they are never ^^ made sick with ex- 

 cess of sap," as it is feared they may be, when the idea 

 of dwarf culture is suggested. "We know, by experi- 

 ence, the best of teachers, that what we say is true; and 

 we can show the evidence of our knowledge and expe- 

 rience, in thrifty vines and large crops of the finest 

 bunches of native grapes, grown upon the dwarf renewal 

 system, in the season of fruit, to any one who may 

 choose to examine them. 



The truth is, that our dwarf renewal system of vine 

 culture is perfectly adapted to native grapes, as well as 

 to the foreign kinds ; it most perfectly meets the wants 

 of grape-growers in the United States, in graperies and 

 vineyards, and on arbors and trellises; and will afi'ord 

 every person who practises it, the highest amount of 

 pleasur^and profit. 



"We iaave purposely described the system of pruning, 

 here Advocated, in detail, in several sections of this 

 work, as adapted to the cold grapery, vineyard, &c., 

 preferring to make some repetition, rather than to fail^ 



