6 BRIGHT ON GRATE CULTURE. 



All vines running to a great height, must of necessity 

 have an immense length of barren cane in proportion 

 to its fruiting wood^ and this barrenness is yearly in- 

 creasing. The best qualities of our native grapes, we 

 feel convinced, can never be developed, unless a better 

 method of pruning and training be adopted by grape 

 growers; and with the hope of aiding th-e accomplish- 

 ment of this object, we here present our system of cul- 

 ture, which, if not the best that can be devised^ is, we 

 believe, far superior to any system at present in use in 

 the United States. 



The <^ dwarf and renewal system/' as we style it, 

 though not entirely original with the writer, is the re- 

 sult of long experience in the culture of the vine, and 

 embodies some methods of managing the grape, of great 

 value, which are not generally known or practised by 

 other cultivators. 



The writer believes that his system is beyond all 

 question the best that can be adopted for grape culture, 

 in America, in all cases. It is, in the main, a method 

 of fruiting the vine on a single, short cane, with veri/ 

 short lateral branches, — growing new wood from the 

 main stem one year, and fruiting it the next; dwarfing 

 the vine by a definite rule of stopping and pruning, and 

 renewing the entire wood of the vine, (except a small 

 portion of the main stem,) every other year. 



This system possesses many important advantages 

 over any other method of culture, which will become 

 apparent after proper examination or trial. 



