62 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



grape growers. Each section of tlie border, intended 

 for a single vine, will be three feet long, two feet wide, 

 and two feet deep. The quantity of compost which 

 this space will contain is amply sufficient to sustain a 

 vine for several years, and when any danger of exhaus- 

 tion is apprehended, it may easily be enlarged. 



The advantages of divided borders are numerous and 

 important. In the first place, there is no possibility, 

 under such circumstances, that the stronger growing 

 vines can interfere with or injure the weaker ones. At 

 the same time, the weaker ones can be watered or ma- 

 nured freely, if desired, without affecting the vines on 

 either side of them. Or, the strong growing kinds may 

 be checked, if necessary, to make them fruitful, by 

 giving less nutriment and less water. In the common 

 border, extending outside of the house, it is almost im- 

 possible to induce the Muscats to ripen their wood, espe- 

 cially the king of all the Muscats, the Cannon Hall ; 

 while in pots, where we have full control of the mois- 

 ture of the soil, we find no such difficulty, and the wood 

 matures in the most perfect manner. Again, if you 

 have any very weak or imperfect vines in your border, 

 or some whose quality you do not like, you can take any 

 one or more of them out, and replace them with more 

 thrifty or more desirable kinds, without in the least 

 disturbing the roots of other vines. In the common 

 border it is almost impossible to remove a large, old 

 vine, without doing great injury to the adjacent vines, 

 nor can you grow a }oung vine, with good success, in a 



